bash improperly sets PATH containing period

Pavel Kudrna Pavel.Kudrna@mff.cuni.cz
Tue Apr 3 16:18:00 GMT 2007


Hi,
when dos(win32) path contains period, e.g. "c:." bash instead of 
converting to "/cygdrive/c" incorrectly copies
this string into PATH variable including colon!
(Such dos path containing period is legal and is used in Novell Client 
as search drives.)
Pavel Kudrna

C:\temp> path c:\temp;c:.;s:\public

C:\temp> path
PATH=c:\temp;c:.;s:\public

C:\temp> "C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" --login -i

kudrna@k15 ~
$ echo $PATH
/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/temp:c:.:/cygdrive/s/public:/usr/local/cint


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