Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:37:25 +0300 (MSK)
From: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
Message-Id: <199702231537.SAA28389@video.yars.free.net>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: bashb7.zip is now available.

> Of course, I could either (1) change double quotes to single quotes,
> or (2) not set SYSROOT at all, to work around this.  But I don't see
> why we need at all to expand pathnames inside double quotes?  If there
> are certain programs that do need this, maybe we should have an
> environment variable which lists such programs?

IMHO, the proper solution is to support SYSROOT in the c library.
That way, bash won't need to guess what is a pathname and what is not.
The same about //d/.