On 03 April 2007 17:18, Pavel Kudrna wrote: > (Such dos path containing period is legal and is used in Novell Client > as search drives.)
However it is impossible to reproduce precisely in cygwin, as there is no concept of a current directory per-drive, only one for the entire system. > Pavel Kudrna > > C:\temp> path c:\temp;c:.;s:\public > > C:\temp> path > PATH=c:\temp;c:.;s:\public > > C:\temp> "C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" --login -i > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ echo $PATH > /usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/temp:c:.:/cygdrive/s/p ublic:/usr/local/cint But I agree this is wrong, the path-conversion code should either just use a plain '.' as a path component or discard the entire item altogether, it certainly shouldn't end up treating 'c' as one path component and '.' as a separate one. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/