X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1283449539-589e30d10001-w5GHUG X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: daniel AT fgm DOT com X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 216.2.55.102 X-ASG-Whitelist: Client Message-ID: <4C7FE2C2.8060104@fgm.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:45:38 -0400 From: Daniel Barclay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100701 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why? Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: UNKNOWN[216.2.55.102] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1283449539 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: AES128-SHA X-Barracuda-URL: http://spam.fgm.com:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I don't quite understand this behavior: $ ls C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe C:\tools\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe $ C:\\tools\\emacs-23.2\\bin\\runemacs.exe bash: C:\tools\emacs-23.2\bin\runemacs.exe: command not found In particular, why is it that bash does not understand that Windows pathname when it is used as a command argument, even though bash and Cygwin clearly understand it when it is used as a command argument? Is that behavior a bug (e.g., does bash try to judge whether the command is an absolute vs. relative pathname without either first converting to a Unix-style pathname or otherwise recognizing Windows-style pathname)? Or is it some known irregularity (resulting from trying to handle both Windows- and Unix-style pathnames) that couldn't be resolved? Thanks, Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple