From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: what path to use that is not DOS??
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54359A6C.4030204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543596B3.1020705@tlinx.org>
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On 10/08/2014 01:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I get this message the 1st time logging in via 'rlogin':
>
> MS-DOS style path detected:
> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
> Preferred POSIX equivalent is:
> /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law
Could any prefix of that path be a symlink with questionable contents?
For example, if /Windows is a symlink to 'c:/' instead of '/cygdrive/c',
that might explain the cryptic error message being reported on the
pre-symlink expansion name although the name being warned about is
post-symlink expansion. At any rate, you are right that it is an
awkward message, so it would be nice to get to a root cause of what you
did that provoked it to make the message nicer, as well as letting you
fix your root cause.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-08 19:56 Linda Walsh
2014-10-08 20:11 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-10-11 21:38 ` Linda Walsh
2014-10-13 16:26 ` Eric Blake
2014-10-08 20:15 ` Eric Blake
2014-10-08 22:08 ` login -p disabling leads to Windows failures -- as it expects its ENV to remain instact for new processes Linda Walsh
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