dosfilewarning

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Jun 21 19:47:00 GMT 2013


On 6/21/2013 2:38 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> I have a BAT file that calls a bash script that generates the
> following (edited):
>
> cygwin warning:
>    MS-DOS style path detected: XXX
>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is: XXX
>    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
>
> If I rerun the script, I don't get the message a second time, which
> makes debugging the problem a problem. How can I have this message
> show up on every invocation? I tried closing all Cygwin processes
> and tried setting CYGWIN=dosfilewarning, but it seemed to want
> something more.

It's not designed to do that.  It will show up once per Cygwin DLL
session only.  If you want to see something different, you'll need
to patch the Cygwin source.

-- 
Larry

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