From: D.Makepeace@mailbox.uq.oz.au (David Makepeace) Subject: Path handling problem (resent) 14 Oct 1996 16:46:06 -0700 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: zzdmakep@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Sorry about sending this again - the mailer seems to have truncated my first attempt... There appears to be a problem with paths of the form //x where 'x' happens to be the drive for the root directory - //d in my case. Obviously this is not a big problem since "cd /" works instead of "cd //d". Using beta 16 on NT 3.51 (build 1057). Has anyone else seen this? | bash$ cd //c | bash$ pwd | /c | bash$ cd //d | bash$ pwd | | bash$ mkdir test | bash$ cd test | bash$ pwd | ./test | bash$ cd .. | bash$ pwd | . | bash$ ls | bash$ mount | Device Directory Type Flags | p: /home native no-mixed,text!=binary | g: /g native no-mixed,text!=binary | \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native no-mixed,text!=binary | \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native no-mixed,text!=binary | \\.\b: /dev/fd1 native no-mixed,text!=binary | \\.\a: /dev/fd0 native no-mixed,text!=binary | r: /cdrom native no-mixed,text!=binary | c: /c native no-mixed,text!=binary | d: / native no-mixed,text!=binary | bash$ NOTES: The "cd //d" does nothing if the current directory is a directory on the same drive otherwise it changes the directory properly but "pwd" shows a null current directory. If this happens then things start to get a bit confused. (e.g. the "cd .." does not work.) David. --------------------------------------------------------------------- David Makepeace Ph: +61 7 3378 4299 KEAYS Software Fax: +61 7 3378 7922 D.Makepeace@mailbox.uq.oz.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".