Re: [Mingw-users] Two bugs(?) in the MSYS shell

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

> From: Eli Zaretskii
> > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:24:33 -0700
> > From: Greg Jung
> >
> > Is this the actual path expansion policy? This is not how its laid
> > out; path expansion refers to arguments and not to the whole
environment.
> 
> It refers to both, AFAIK.  At least that's what I see on my system with
MSYS.
> 

There is a small set of environment variables that are modified by MSYS and
those are ones where the environment variable in Windows and POSIX were
common, e.g. PATH, and required for operating a POSIX environment.  A string
with D:/some/path will be converted to D:;C:/PATH/TO/MSYS/ROOT/some/path
because : is the list separator in POSIX and ; is the list separator in
Windows.  Note the C: in my example is assuming that is the device where
MSYS is installed.

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Earnie