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Re: Strange cd/CDPATH behavior
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Strange cd/CDPATH behavior
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:16:47 -0700 (PDT)
--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:26:20PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote:
> >B20.1 must have recognized that w:/ is an absolute path while 1.1.4 doesn't
> >think so. And somehow "." in CDPATH triggers the problem.
>
> It is *not* B20.1 that is an issue here. It is *bash*. There are
> (obviously)
> different versions of bash in older cygwin releases than there were in
> newer releases.
>
Well, actually, the changes to allow Cygwin to recognize d:/ as a Win32
absolute path have IMO caused the change.
> Rather than endlessly speculating about this, can someone look at the code
> and find out what is going on??? I sincerely doubt that there will be a
> simple workaround for this problem that does not involve changing bash.
I agree, bash now needs to be taught that d:/ and d:\ are absolute paths.
Cheers,
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