On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
zsh doesn't evaluate the root directory ('/') if it is in $CDPATH. I
tested this under SuSE 8.1 and it works as supposed, so this seems to
be a Cygwin-zsh bug.
Have a look at the example[1] ('**' is my prompt).
Ok, I considder this a bug in zsh code, and I've created a patch to
special case root (/). It's really more of a clash with Windows path
methodology. See, Windows has this concept of drive share access where
you can access a host\share by specifying two leading slashes (\\)
thus:
dir \\ming\archive
Or under cygwin:
ls //ming/archive
Well, in the case of cdpath, it appends a slash (/) to each of the
entries in cdpath and then appends the directory the user specified.
Thus for cdpath=/ and a cd bin you'd get //bin. This is treated as a
partial host path and tries to cd to it which isn't valid. Try doing
cd //bin sometime. This works on Linux Unix because there is no
special meaning attached to //, but under Windows Cygwin, there is.
So, I've coded a special case fix and I'll be releasing it soon.
As a work-around, specify /. instead of / in cdpath and that will fix
it to.
(Administrator)[112] ~/src/zsh/work406/work/zsh-4.0.6/Src % cdpath=(/. $HOME)
(Administrator)[113] ~/src/zsh/work406/work/zsh-4.0.6/Src % cd bin
/bin ~/src/zsh/work406/work/zsh-4.0.6/Src
(Administrator)[113] /bin %
Thorsten
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