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Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning
On Monday, April 20, 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It isn't really erroneous. ÂSomething (awk) is trying to open a filename
> with that includes backslashes, so cygwin1.dll thinks that it is trying
> to open a DOS path.
Except it looks like, from what's pasted above, that it's actually a
non-filename backslash that's triggering it - the backslash inside an
awk pattern, in this case. It's seeing the regex /^\s/ and
recommending that it be replaced with /^/s/. Clearly the trigger is
overzealous...
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