[PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

[Edward Lam]

Hi Folks,

I finally got down to looking at how to fix this in dash and came up 
with the attached patch (against dash-0.5.7). It's simple enough and so 
cd now works.

Please consider this for Cygwin.

Thanks!

-Edward

On 03/12/2011 5:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 10:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Rounding out a (super-old) thread on my dash todo list...
>
>>>> $ dash
>>>> $ cd /c
>>>> $ ls -d W*
>>>> WINDOWS
>>>> $ cd c:/WINDOWS
>>>> cd: 3: can't cd to c:/WINDOWS
>>>
>>> Let's rule out bash vs. dash complexities, and first focus on whether
>>> cygwin1.dll might be at fault.
>
>>
>> Works fine in Cygwin, I just tested it:
> ...
>>    $ gcc -g -o chdir chdir.c
>>    $ ./chdir C:/Windows
>>    pwd: /cygdrive/c/Windows
>>
>> It's a problem in dash apparently.
>
> I finally spent time in gdb figuring out what's going on.
>
> The problem is that dash tries to convert c:/windows to an absolute
> path, since it doesn't start with /.  I suppose I could teach dash to
> recognize [letter]:/ as absolute paths, although that makes dash larger,
> and puts a burden on me (since I can guarantee upstream dash won't
> accept such a patch).
>
>> I just don't care enough for DOS paths so I won't fix.
>
> Me neither.  And since you can use /cygdrive/c, not c:/, I won't bother
> to fix it.
>

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--- src/cd.c	2011-03-15 03:18:06.000000000 -0400
+++ src/cd.new.c	2013-03-28 11:03:32.649576500 -0400
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <limits.h>
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+#include <sys/cygwin.h>
+#endif
 
 /*
  * The cd and pwd commands.
@@ -194,6 +197,11 @@
 	char *cdcomppath;
 	const char *lim;
 
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+        char pathbuf[PATH_MAX + 1];
+        cygwin_conv_to_full_posix_path (dir, pathbuf);
+	 dir = pathbuf;
+#endif
 	cdcomppath = sstrdup(dir);
 	STARTSTACKSTR(new);
 	if (*dir != '/') {

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