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Re: [Patch] cygcheck: warn about empty path-components
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:05:14AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote:
>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 missed the part about the warning before but I *really* don't think we
need to warn the user about standard UNIX behavior in cygcheck. That is
really not what's for.
>: 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 ';'.
I'm sure the same thing is true on UNIX and yet it has survived for
years without a unicheck program informing people of this fact.
cgf