allow executing a path in backslash notation

[Ilya Beylin]

The problem is that DOS paths are treated differently, even within the
same program.
Take for instance, bash:

$ builtin test -x "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe" && echo ok
yes
$ builtin exec "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe" /C echo ok
-bash: exec: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe: not found

That makes a lot of headache both for users and for programmers who
have to remember about all such special cases

Cheers
Ilya

On 10 March 2010 10:25, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mar  9 13:47, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
>>
>> > The bottom line is that if you want to use MS-DOS
>> > paths, then use a MinGW or DJGPP version of make.exe.  make.exe is not
>> > going to be patched.
>>
>> The patch was to cygwin1.dll, but I am not insisting.
>
> Trouble is, I don't even see the problem.  Executing a file in DOS
> notation is already possible:
>
>  bash$ cat << EOF > exec.c
>  #include <unistd.h>
>
>  int
>  main (int argc, char **argv)
>  {
>    char *args[] = { argv[1], "abc", 0};
>    execv (argv[1], args);
>    return 1;
>  }
>  EOF
>  bash$ gcc -o exec exec.c
>  bash$ ./exec /bin/echo
>  abc
>  bash$ ./exec C:\\cygwin\\bin\\echo
>  abc
>
>
> Corinna
>
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