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Re: allow executing a path in backslash notation
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:16:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: allow executing a path in backslash notation
- References: <847981.91314.qm@web88305.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 16 09:15, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
>
> > I checked this situation in cmd.exe, and it is not capable of using
> > paths relativ to %Path%. In other words, if %Path% contains a path
> > c:\foo and you have two files C:\foo\baz.exe and C:\foo\bar\baz.exe,
> > then calling "baz" works, but calling "bar\baz" fails.
>
> I only meant resolving relative commands against the current directory. That is, regardless of %PATH%, bar\baz is allowed to resolve if the current directory is c:\foo.
>
> The absolute paths are already resolved.
>
> My patch allows relative and absolute commands in backslash notation, as the test case shows.
>
> > So, yes, maybe we should care for this situation but it's not something
> > to worry about a lot. I'll look into it again at some point after 1.7.2
> > has been released.
>
> Thanks.
This should be fixed in CVS now and will be in 1.7.3.
Corinna
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