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Not really for programmers, as Corinna has demonstrated, unless you refer to shell script programmers.The problem is that DOS paths are treated differently, even within the same program. Take for instance, bash:
$ builtin test -x "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe"&& echo ok yes $ builtin exec "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe" /C echo ok -bash: exec: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe: not found
That makes a lot of headache both for users and for programmers who
have to remember about all such special cases
$ echo D:\\cygwin17\\bin\\min*.exe D:\cygwin17\bin\min*.exe $ echo D:\\cygwin17\\bin/min*.exe D:\cygwin17\bin/mined.exe D:\cygwin17\bin/mintty.exe
Cheers Ilya
On 10 March 2010 10:25, Corinna Vinschen<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
On Mar 9 13:47, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
The bottom line is that if you want to use MS-DOSThe patch was to cygwin1.dll, but I am not insisting.
paths, then use a MinGW or DJGPP version of make.exe. make.exe is not
going to be patched.
Trouble is, I don't even see the problem. Executing a file in DOS notation is already possible:
bash$ cat<< EOF> exec.c #include<unistd.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv) { char *args[] = { argv[1], "abc", 0}; execv (argv[1], args); return 1; } EOF bash$ gcc -o exec exec.c bash$ ./exec /bin/echo abc bash$ ./exec C:\\cygwin\\bin\\echo abc
Corinna
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