On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:10:14PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >Hi all, > >A recent cygwin update has started spewing warnings such as the >following when I do tab completion on a path containing spaces: >> $ cd ~/Home/Documents/Pcygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: ~/Home/Documents/PC\ reviews\ 2011 >> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: ~/Home/Documents/PC/ reviews/ 2011 >> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this >> warning. >> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames > >Would it be possible to make the check exclude common character >escapes?
No. If a backslash has gotten to the filesystem layer which is reporting this then something is going wrong. Cygwin can't process a file specification with a backslash as anything but a MS-DOS path. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
