X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AF0E7FD.3060700@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:33:33 -0800 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 ThunderBrowse/3.2.6.5 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [1.7] Undocumented change in accessing by dos drive letters? References: <19183 DOT 9501 DOT 7117 DOT 656831 AT consult DOT pretender> <4AEF316F DOT 2070502 AT cygwin DOT com> <416096c60911021258j27d49894kda1f835b3f487a3b AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60911021258j27d49894kda1f835b3f487a3b@mail.gmail.com> X-Stationery: 0.4.10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Andy Koppe wrote: > C: and C:\ aren't the same thing in DOS/cmd.exe. C: means the current > directory of the C drive, whereas C:\ means the root directory of the > C drive. Within each cmd.exe session, each drive has its own current > directory. --- Right. That's a cmd.exe-ism -- As Christofpher F. says, it's not been true in Cygwin in a long time (I don't remember it being true, ever, but I never tried using it to see if it was supported). If you are in a 'bash' shell -- bash doesn't maintain an internal, drive-specific "CWD", for each DOS drive -- it just has 1 CWD(CurrentWorkingDir) as there is no concept of 'drivers'. C:\\, works due to path mangling -- likely when bash sees it, it's already "[/YourCygPrefixHere]/c/ or root depending on your mount points. If "C:" worked it could be confusing, Unless, "C" was your *only* drive -- then people might forget and think that C: meant your CWD on your "current drive"...but really, there's no current drive, and I'm not sure cygwin should inherently support such a vague syntax. What would it mean in a POSIX context? Would it mean "/c/$PWD" or "/c/", or (for /c/ == '/' i.e. c is your root partition), would it mean '/' or $PWD? -l -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple