On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:02:31AM +0100, Hack Kampbjorn wrote: >LA Walsh wrote: >>Cygwin, and possibly, the Win32 module, are inconsistent in handling >>the differences between i:/foobar/ and i:. On one hand i: is >>considered a 'volume' but on the other hand i:/ seems to evaluate to >>the same, incorrect, value. In "Win32", each 'fs' of form "<x>:', x >>of class <[:alpha:]>, there is a process-specific "current >>directory". This can be seen by: >> >In the old DOS days yes, but in Win32 there is only one current >directory. The illusion of having a current directory per drive and an >active drive is maintained in cmd.exe (or is it in the MS C runtime?). >As cygwin doesn't use it, i:foobar and i:/foobar is always the same. > ><deleted long list of tests that demostrate this/>
Right. Even though I rely on the behavior (which is a feature of the MS-DOS/Win9x OS and the Windows NT command line shells) on Windows, it has no business in cygwin. If you want somewhat similar behavior use pushd/popd. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
