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Re: mkdir -p and network drives
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:34:56PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> writes:
>>Except that it can't be made to work correctly due to a bash bug.
>
>Which Bash bug is that?
Eric Blake alluded to it here:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00254.html
Bash is the most important program for which 'that chdir("//") is
currently no different from chdir("/")'.
>Bash bugs can be fixed.
Our track record for getting cygwin fixes into bash has been mixed.
I believe that someone has tried to get this fixed previously, along
with an even more serious problem with bash getting confused by
quick pid reuse but I believe that both problem still exist in
bash 3.0.
cgf
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