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Le 07/10/2013 00:33, Christopher Faylor a écrit :
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:06:52PM +0200, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Francis ANDRE <francis DOT andre AT easynet DOT fr> wrote:
>>> Hi Robert
>>>
>>> The problem here is that the string of the target directory is computed by
>>> another tool -- Mercurial in this case -- and that Mercurial returns a
>>> absolute windows style path as
>>>
>>> Z:/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot
>>>
>>> which seems to be relative in Unix world but which is absolute in the
>>> Windows world.
>>>
>>>
>>> Moreover, when using the bash shell, the command
>>>
>>> FrancisANDRE AT idefix /cygdrive/c/Cygwin
>>> $ cd Z:/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot
>>>
>>> moves the cwd without error to
>>> FrancisANDRE AT idefix /cygdrive/z/DEV/OpenJDK_7u40/hotspot
>>>
>>>
>>> So why the ksh cannot do the same?
>> That question ksh developers or cygwin package maintainers should be
>> able to answer.  They might just use different syscalls which vary in
>> behavior on Cygwin.  You could try to find that out with strace.
> More likely it is just because ksh automatically prepends the current
> working directory to something that it considers to be relative.
>
> I know I'm a broken record on the subject but it is not a requirement that
> Cygwin tools to be able to understand MS-DOS paths.  It's possible that they
> do, by coincidence, understand them but it is not a given that they will.
Can I have a official statement from Cygwin about this? ie that bash is 
supporting MS-DOX path by accident and ksh won't and that is not a requirement 
of Cygwin?

Or

Can Cygwin adds the understanding of absolute DOS path as a requirement and fix 
the ksh stuff?

Francis
>
> cgf
>
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