Eric Blake wrote on 2011-05-02: > On 05/02/2011 09:30 AM, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >> When I try to do a tab-completion on a directory with a space in it > for the first time after starting Cygwin, I get a DOS warning even > though I'm not using a DOS path. This only seems to happen when I > access the directory through a symlink I have to my E: drive, like so: >> >> thrall@pc1163-8413-xp ~ >> $ pushd ~/myuserdrv/My\ Downcygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: ~/myuserdrv/My\ Downloads Preferred POSIX >> equivalent is: ~/myuserdrv/My/ Downloads 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 > > Are you using bash-completion? If so, it's likely a bug in > bash-completion for passing an underquoted file name through the shell > such that it results in a failed globbing attempt on a literal \.
AFAIK, I am not using bash-completion; the package is installed, but I don't source /etc/bash_completion in my ~/.bashrc. > I haven't yet managed to reproduce this in my setup (perhaps I need to > double-check that my $CYGWIN hasn't already suppressed the warning?). > Maybe showing: > > $ set -vx > $ pushd ~/myuserdrv/My\ Down[TAB] > > might give me some insight where to look at plugging the leak? I don't think there's much help there, unfortunately: thrall@pc1163-8413-xp ~ $ set -vx settitle ++ settitle ++ echo -ne '\033]0;bash\007' thrall@pc1163-8413-xp ~ $ pushd ~/myuserdrv/My\ Downcygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: ~/myuserdrv/My\ Downloads Preferred POSIX equivalent is: ~/myuserdrv/My/ Downloads 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 loads/ pushd ~/myuserdrv/My\ Downloads/ + pushd '/home/thrall/myuserdrv/My Downloads/' ~/myuserdrv/My Downloads ~ settitle ++ settitle ++ echo -ne '\033]0;bash\007' (settitle is my function to set the window title; PROMPT_COMMAND is set to it) It does seem to be limited to tab-completion, though; if I type in the full directory name (~/myuserdrv/My\ Downloads) and hit enter, I don't get the warning. E: is a partition of my local drive, in case it matters. -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- 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