From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1960 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2010 15:26:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 1952 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2010 15:26:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:26:39 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 500B96D4360; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:26:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:33:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash Message-ID: <20100305152637.GK7980@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B5860C9.50100@sidefx.com> <4B591221.10501@byu.net> <4B91105B.7050205@sidefx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B91105B.7050205@sidefx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-03/txt/msg00173.txt.bz2 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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