Hi, On 15 Jan 2013 03:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
It seems to me then that a patch to bash may be in order? I can see how the bash check is the right thing to do. It doesn't want the special tilde expansion to mask and disallow referencing of real tilde prefixed paths. So the stat() check is the quick win to determine that.From what I make of it, there needs to be a patch that, although can work generically, adds checks only required for Cygwin. And therefore is specific to the Cygwin package. The check would be an extension of the file_exists() function, perhaps called tilde_file_exists(), which determines if the tilde prefix forms a directory component of the path (strchr('/')?). If it does not, the file_exists() check is sufficient. If it does, then the check of if that directory exists is logically and'ed to the result of file_exists(). Does that sound about right?A check like this might be a good idea. Ultimately I would be glad to be able to come up with more correct code in Cygwin while not getting slower, of course. But that's wishful thinking for now.
Bash, patched in the way I have described, seems to fix the tab completion issue. I will tidy up the work and publish the patch at some point soon. I may have taken a naive approach, so review comments are welcome. -- Regards, Shaddy -- 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
