[Patch] cygcheck: warn about empty path-components

Bas van Gompel cygwin-patches.buzz@bavag.tmfweb.nl
Thu Oct 7 02:05:00 GMT 2004


Op Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:58:05 -0400 schreef Christopher Faylor
in <20041006145805.GB29289@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>:
:  On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:49:09AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote:

[Empty path-components resolving to current dir.]

: > (Maybe the message could get a ``-v'' addition like: ``This will
: > resolve to the current directory when in cygwin''.)

s/-v/-h/. (I'm waiting for the other (trailing slash) patch to be
applied or rejected, before submitting this.)

:  I see that Corinna has checked this in but I really don't see the need
:  for a warning for a perfectly acceptable use of an empty PATH component.
:
:  Why are we bothering with this?

If I may attempt to answer this one... Many people may not know of
this usage, yet may have their windows path ending on a ';'.

L8r,

Buzz.
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