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Subject: Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:37:01AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 4/20/2009 9:29 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I just installed the bash-completion package.  To see how it worked, I 
>> typed
>> $ ssh <TAB>
>> This yielded:
>> $ ssh cygwin warning:
>>   MS-DOS style path detected: BEGIN {FS=","}
>>                                 /^\s*[^|\#]/ {for (i=1; i<=2; ++i) { \
>>                                        gsub(" .*$", "", $i); \
>>                                        if ($i ~ /
>>   Preferred POSIX equivalent is: BEGIN {FS=","}
>>                                 /^/s*[^|/#]/ {for (i=1; i<=2; ++i) { /
>>                                        gsub(" .*$", "", $i); /
>>                                        if ($i ~ /
>>   CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this 
>> warning.
>>   Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>>     http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>> Apparently a line continuation backslash in /etc/bash_completion was 
>> misinterpreted as an attempt to use DOS style paths.
>
> Sorry, it might not have been the line continuation backslash.  There are 
> earlier backslashes in the line.

It isn't really erroneous.  Something (awk) is trying to open a filename
with that includes backslashes, so cygwin1.dll thinks that it is trying
to open a DOS path.

cgf

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