Re: allow executing a path in backslash notation

[Ilya Beylin <beylin dot i at gmail dot com>]

The problem is that DOS paths are treated differently, even within the
same program.
Take for instance, bash:

$ builtin test -x "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe" && echo ok
yes
$ builtin exec "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe" /C echo ok
-bash: exec: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe: not found

That makes a lot of headache both for users and for programmers who
have to remember about all such special cases

Cheers
Ilya

On 10 March 2010 10:25, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mar Â9 13:47, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
>>
>> > The bottom line is that if you want to use MS-DOS
>> > paths, then use a MinGW or DJGPP version of make.exe. Âmake.exe is not
>> > going to be patched.
>>
>> The patch was to cygwin1.dll, but I am not insisting.
>
> Trouble is, I don't even see the problem. ÂExecuting a file in DOS
> notation is already possible:
>
> Âbash$ cat << EOF > exec.c
> Â#include <unistd.h>
>
> Âint
> Âmain (int argc, char **argv)
> Â{
> Â Âchar *args[] = { argv[1], "abc", 0};
> Â Âexecv (argv[1], args);
> Â Âreturn 1;
> Â}
> ÂEOF
> Âbash$ gcc -o exec exec.c
> Âbash$ ./exec /bin/echo
> Âabc
> Âbash$ ./exec C:\\cygwin\\bin\\echo
> Âabc
>
>
> Corinna
>
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