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New scary warning in 1.7.0
- From: Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:10:50 -0400
- Subject: New scary warning in 1.7.0
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2006-q3/msg00105.html
This adds this type of warning to cygwin:
c:\>ls c:/
cygwin warning:
MS-DOS style path detected: c:/
Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /c
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
...
Unless turned off with CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning, the above warning shows
up once per user/per cygwin invocation, i.e., there is a flag stored in
the users's shared memory region.
I'm not 100% sure that the benefit here will outweigh the outcry but
Corinna and I want to give it a try and see what happens.
cgf