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Re: B19.1: bug using 'cd' in sh.exe
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, Eric Holter <eholter at newpointtech dot com>
- Subject: Re: B19.1: bug using 'cd' in sh.exe
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 05:38:34 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Eric Holter <eholter@newpointtech.com> wrote:
>
> hello,
> i found that since bash.exe spawns sh.exe when one shell script calls
> another, baffeling behavior results when sh.exe behaves differently
from
> bash.exe. in one case, i found that bash.exe can handle doing 'cd
> d:/src' but sh.exe cannot handle this syntax. instead, you must do
'cd
> //d/src' or something similar.
mv sh.exe ash.exe
cp bash.exe sh.exe
>
> futhermore, if you are currently in a directory like '//d/src', and
you
> try typing 'cd //d' from the bash.exe command prompt, you find that
you
> didn't really change directories at all after the 'cd' command.
> astoundingly, doing 'pwd' says '//d', but doing an 'ls' reveals that
you
> are actually still in '//d/src'.
Well, this is what MSDOS would do, isn't it? Although, I do consider
it a bug in the filesystem emulation.
Work around:
Do one or both:
mount -b d:/ /d
mount -b d:/src /src
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