Re: Cygwin /tmp\foo behaviour

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:41:36AM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>> >I was suggesting to test by typing /tmp\c00017569.base in bash 
>> and it will
>> >return /tmpc00017569.base.  This was to show that /tmp\c00017569.base
>> >was not same as /tmp/c00017569.base.
>> 
>> If you are going to try to show the difference then have somebody type:
>> 
>> /tmp\\c00017569.base
>>     ^^
>>   two backslashes
>> 
>> Otherwise, the backslash is eaten by bash before any program sees it.
>
>That was what happening to him and that's why I type with single \ to
>show that get eaten by bash and ld returned "no such file"

ld does not use bash.  There are two different errors here one mentions
'/tmp\c00017569.base' and one mentions '/tmpc00017569.base'.  The second
one has no bearing on the first.

It doesn't sound like I'm going to convince you of this, so I'm going to
stop contributing to this thread now.

cgf