From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: dash-0.5.5.1-2; Obsolete: ash
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDA9E99.9030307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100305172048.GN7980@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On 03/05/2010 10:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Rounding out a (super-old) thread on my dash todo list...
>>> $ dash
>>> $ cd /c
>>> $ ls -d W*
>>> WINDOWS
>>> $ cd c:/WINDOWS
>>> cd: 3: can't cd to c:/WINDOWS
>>
>> Let's rule out bash vs. dash complexities, and first focus on whether
>> cygwin1.dll might be at fault.
>
> Works fine in Cygwin, I just tested it:
...
> $ gcc -g -o chdir chdir.c
> $ ./chdir C:/Windows
> pwd: /cygdrive/c/Windows
>
> It's a problem in dash apparently.
I finally spent time in gdb figuring out what's going on.
The problem is that dash tries to convert c:/windows to an absolute
path, since it doesn't start with /. I suppose I could teach dash to
recognize [letter]:/ as absolute paths, although that makes dash larger,
and puts a burden on me (since I can guarantee upstream dash won't
accept such a patch).
> I just don't care enough for DOS paths so I won't fix.
Me neither. And since you can use /cygdrive/c, not c:/, I won't bother
to fix it.
--
Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-03 22:11 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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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