On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:37:01AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 4/20/2009 9:29 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> I just installed the bash-completion package. To see how it worked, I >> typed >> $ ssh <TAB> >> This yielded: >> $ ssh cygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: BEGIN {FS=","} >> /^\s*[^|\#]/ {for (i=1; i<=2; ++i) { \ >> gsub(" .*$", "", $i); \ >> if ($i ~ / >> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: BEGIN {FS=","} >> /^/s*[^|/#]/ {for (i=1; i<=2; ++i) { / >> gsub(" .*$", "", $i); / >> if ($i ~ / >> 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 >> Apparently a line continuation backslash in /etc/bash_completion was >> misinterpreted as an attempt to use DOS style paths. > > Sorry, it might not have been the line continuation backslash. There are > earlier backslashes in the line.
It isn't really erroneous. Something (awk) is trying to open a filename with that includes backslashes, so cygwin1.dll thinks that it is trying to open a DOS path. cgf -- 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/