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Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem


On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 09:42:39AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>According to mwoehlke on 9/29/2006 12:14 PM:
>> Wilks, Dan wrote:
>>> So we just got the short-end?  A long(?) standing behavior of cygwin
>>> and DOS paths and a recent change to bash that eliminates support for
>>> \r's.  I guess we were living on the edge of something that wasn't
>>> supposed to work at all and didn't even know it.  :/
>>>
>>> We'll try to figure out some workaround for our environment.  I just
>>> wish going "pure cygwin" was an option.
>> 
>> Well, as we like to say here, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC. Since
>> Eric is currently amenable to adding a shopt to bash, you have the
>> option of implementing it yourself and submitting the patch for upstream
>> consideration.
>
>I also mentioned that I am toying with the idea of a cygwin-specific patch
>that converts all script path to posix before opening them (a'la
>cygwin_conv_to_full_posix_path in <sys/cygwin.h>); at which point DOS
>paths to a text mode mount would inherit text mode behavior, but DOS paths
>to a binary mode mount would still remain binary.  At any rate, I hope to
>post bash-3.1-9 next week with something a little nicer for ignoring \r
>and working with DOS paths, without too much of a penalty to people like
>me that avoid \r and use POSIX paths at all costs in the first place.

If you are not going to support CRLF line endings, I really don't see
any point in going overboard in trying to support MS-DOS path names.

I really am getting a bad feeling that, rather than FIXING THE SCRIPTS,
everyone is reverting to using text mode mounts which are not what we
generally recommend.

cgf

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