RE: bash bug report? Minor border case:

["linda w \(cyg\)" <cygwin at tlinx dot org>]

Is bash a cygwin app or a central part of the cygwin DLL?

Guess bash must be part of cygwin.  I always thought it was
an app.  Silly me.

-linda


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu]
> Sent: Sat, Mar 29, 2003 5:22p
> To: linda w (cyg)
> Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com; cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: bash bug report? Minor border case:
>
>
> Linda,
>
> According to <http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists>, this is
> off-topic for the <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com> list.  Please remove
> <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com> from further replies.
> 	Igor
>
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote:
>
> > Valid filename created by app:
> > \Documents and Settings\law\My
> >
> Documents\win\registry2\regtweaks\Kellys_XP_Tweaks\download.co
> m.com\clear\redx\c.gif-ts=-104976066&edId=3&prtnr=CNET+Networks,+Inc.&
> >
> oid=3000-2094-10126096&ptId=3000&onId=2094&sId=4&asId=10126096
> &pId=10126096&asType=Product
> >
> > exactly 255 characters long.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is a bit of a 'normalization problem'.
> >
> > If one does a 'updatedb', it complains that "C:\\Documents
> and Settings\law\My
> >
> Documents\win\registry2\regtweaks\Kellys_XP_Tweaks\download.co
> m.com\clear\redx\c.gif-ts=-104976066&edId=3&prtnr=CNET+Networks,+Inc.&
> >
> oid=3000-2094-10126096&ptId=3000&onId=2094&sId=4&asId=10126096
> &pId=10126096&asType=Product"
> >
> > is too long a filename (and at 258 characters, it is), however if
> > it were normalized to either cygwin (using native normalization
> > semantics) to either the above w/o "C:\" or just "/c/Doc..." then
> > it should work.
> >
> > Similar bug is in 'cmd.exe' (XP), but at least in "bash", you can
> > put double quotes  around the string and it will work with 'ls'.
> >
> > Not sure of the best way to address it, but believe it or not I
> > have 3 files with such weird names.
> > -linda
>
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