[Patch] cygcheck: warn about empty path-components

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 6 14:58:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:49:09AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote:
>Op Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:46:49 +0200 schreef Corinna Vinschen
>in <20041005144649.GB30752@cygbert.vinschen.de>:
>
>[Empty path-components resolving to current dir.]
>
>:  Oh, interesting.  I never even thought about using an empty path.
>
>Nor I. Thw described behaviour makes the warning even more useful (when
>cygcheck is run from a command/cmd prompt).
>
>Are you applying the patch?
>
>(Maybe the message could get a ``-v'' addition like: ``This will
>resolve to the current directory when in cygwin''.)

I see that Corinna has checked this in but I really don't see the need
for a warning for a perfectly acceptable use of an empty PATH component.

Why are we bothering with this?

cgf



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