[Patch] cygcheck: warn about empty path-components

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct  5 10:34, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:09:31AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
> >The current directory is specified by a null path name, which can appear
> >immediately after the equal sign, between two colon delimiters anywhere in
> >the path list, or at the end of the path list.
> >[...]
> >I believe this is a valid construct and I have used it frequently.
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> PATH=/foo::/bar
> 
> means search for /foo, then the current directory, then /bar.

Oh, interesting.  I never even thought about using an empty path.

Corinna

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