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Re: Strange cd/CDPATH behavior


--- 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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