Re: [Mingw-msys] incorrect POSIX path name to WIN32 conversion

[Keith M. <kei...@to...>]

Group W wrote:
> I noticed that in a shell script the path:
> "C:/Documents and Settings/.../My Documents"
>
> is incorrectly being converted to:
> "C;<msys installation dir>/Documents and Settings/.../My Documents" 
>
> I have not tried the snapshots, mainly because they are package
> differently and I'm not sure what to download. Does anyone know if
> this issue has been addressed? If so, what do I need to download?

It's a known bug, which only shows up occasionally, in particular
contexts; (what is it, in full, in your case, BTW).  AFAIK, no fix
has yet been identified.

> I would be happy if there were a way to disable the POSIX to WIN32
> path name conversion, but I could not find it if it exists. 

It has been mooted, in the past, but nothing is likely to materialise
until MSYS-1.0.12.

FWIW, with MSYS-1.0.11, I see:

  $ cmd //c echo "C:/Documents and Settings/keith/My Documents"
  "C:/Documents and Settings/keith/My Documents"

  $ ls "C:/Documents and Settings/keith/My Documents"
  My Pictures

  $ ls "C:/Documents and Settings/keith/My Documents/My Pictures"
  Desktop.ini  Sample.jpg

but, in a context I know to be problematic:

  $ cmd //c echo "dir C:/Documents and Settings/keith/My Documents"
  "dir C;D:\MSYS-1.0.11\Documents and Settings\keith\My Documents"

Regards,
Keith.