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Re: A simple one. CYGWIN_98 - 4.10 (BASH false error message) (secon d time newbie bug report)
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: A simple one. CYGWIN_98 - 4.10 (BASH false error message) (secon d time newbie bug report)
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:07:05 -0400
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- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 08:58:13AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>This has been reported before, the bug is in bash and it is the error message
>wording that is incorrect. `is a directory' should read `is not a directory'.
I think that Paul Sokolovsky's analysis is correct, actually. The errno mapping
is probably wrong. I see the same thing with 'zsh'.
Now that I actually know about this, I'll fix it.
cgf
>--- "Diel, Robert" <RDiel@wmsgaming.com> wrote:
>> To whom it may concern,
>> A false error message exists in the built in CD command in bash. If you
>> change directory to a file, it says the file is a directory. For example,
>>
>> cd /bin/ls.exe
>> BASH.EXE: cd: bin/ls.exe: is a directory
>>
>> I took a quick look at the source code, and didn't see anything obvious. It
>> might have to do with someone, cd, falsely setting the ENOEXEC flag, but I
>> am not quite sure. I don't have time right now to look into it, but if it
>> is needed I can look into it further tonight. I know this is a nitpicking
>> little problem, but considering how far y'all have advanced, even in the
>> last year, any little problem makes this product look less professional then
>> it actually is. Thank you,
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