[I noticed an old thread in my inbox while packaging dash 0.5.8 for Cygwin]
On 03/28/2013 09:08 AM, Edward Lam wrote [to the cygwin list]:
The problem is that dash tries to convert c:/windows to an absolute
path, since it doesn't start with /. I suppose I could teach dash to
recognize [letter]:/ as absolute paths, although that makes dash larger,
and puts a burden on me (since I can guarantee upstream dash won't
accept such a patch).
I just don't care enough for DOS paths so I won't fix.
Me neither. And since you can use /cygdrive/c, not c:/, I won't bother
to fix it.
Hi Folks,
I finally got down to looking at how to fix this in dash and came up
with the attached patch (against dash-0.5.7). It's simple enough and so
cd now works.
Please consider this for Cygwin.
I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off
patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth
including platform-specific patches like this (no penalty to build size
of non-cygwin platforms, and on cygwin, it allows 'cd c:/' to behave as
shorthand for 'cd /cygdrive/c/')? If the patch lands in dash.git, then
I'll rebuild the cygwin port of dash to include a backport (rather than
waiting for 0.5.9 to be released). If there is no interest, I'd rather
just drop the patch. The cygwin community already states that
/cygdrive/c notation is the official way to access drive letters, and
that if 'c:/' works it is nice, but it is not a design goal to always
have it work.
--- src/cd.c 2011-03-15 03:18:06.0 -0400
+++ src/cd.new.c 2013-03-28 11:03:32.649576500 -0400
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
#include string.h
#include unistd.h
#include limits.h
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+#include sys/cygwin.h
+#endif
/*
* The cd and pwd commands.
@@ -194,6 +197,11 @@
char *cdcomppath;
const char *lim;
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+char pathbuf[PATH_MAX + 1];
+cygwin_conv_to_full_posix_path (dir, pathbuf);
By the way, cygwin_conv_to_full_posix_path() is deprecated (it suffers
from possible buffer overflow); these days, it's preferred to use:
cygwin_conv_path (CCP_WIN_A_TO_POSIX | CCP_RELATIVE, string, pathbuf,
sizeof(pathbuf))
So, if there is interest in this patch upstream, I can respin it.
+ dir = pathbuf;
+#endif
cdcomppath = sstrdup(dir);
STARTSTACKSTR(new);
if (*dir != '/') {
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com+1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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