From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100305152637.GK7980@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B91105B.7050205@sidefx.com>
On Mar 5 09:08, Edward Lam wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> >According to Edward Lam on 1/21/2010 7:12 AM:
> >>DOS file paths and dash seems to NOT support them
> >
> >Huh? Give an example. dash supports DOS paths the same as bash. That
> >is, if the : doesn't already cause other problems (as in tar), then the
> >DOS path is handed on to native windows (and you get the nodosfiles
> >warning from cygwin1.dll on the first use).
>
> Sorry for the slow reply on this one as I had just given up and gone
> from sh to bash. Here's a reproducible case (starting with bash as
> the initial shell).
>
> $ cygcheck -c cygwin dash bash
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package Version Status
> bash 3.2.49-23 OK
> cygwin 1.7.1-1 OK
> dash 0.5.5.1-2 OK
> $ echo $CYGWIN
> nodosfilewarning
> $ bash
> $ cd c:/
> $ pwd
> /c
> $ export FOO=c:/windows
> $ cd $FOO
> $ pwd
> /c/windows
> $ cd c:/
> $ pwd
> /c
> $ dash
> $ export FOO=c:/windows
> $ cd $FOO
> cd: 2: can't cd to c:/windows
> $ exit
>
> We rely on being able to perform "cd $FOO" where FOO is a DOS file
> path and this used to work in the old ash.
Is that a case-sensitivity issue, perhaps? See
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
Corinna
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 15:36 Eric Blake
2009-07-14 15:36 ` GOLD STAR! (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash) Corinna Vinschen
2010-01-21 15:01 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash Edward Lam
2010-01-21 16:03 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-01-22 4:15 ` Eric Blake
2010-03-05 14:11 ` Edward Lam
2010-03-05 15:33 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2010-03-05 17:00 ` Edward Lam
2010-03-05 17:01 ` Edward Lam
2010-03-05 17:06 ` Edward Lam
2010-03-05 17:20 ` Eric Blake
2010-03-05 17:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-03-05 20:11 ` Edward Lam
2011-12-03 22:11 ` Eric Blake
2013-03-28 15:08 ` [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash Edward Lam
2010-03-05 17:10 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash Edward Lam
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