Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:16:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net>
cc: jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: bashb7.zip is now available.
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:

> 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/.

I'm afraid that's a libc rewrite.  I don't have time to even think about
all the implications of such a change.  For starters, all the places where
the pathname is checked for `:' as its second character will have to be
taught about the //d/ thing.  Anyway, `bash' is already very close to
being perfect (at least for the tasks I need it; and I didn't see anybody
else complaining about these issues), so I'm not sure such a massive
change could be justified.