Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm not interested in burdening the cygwin build of dash with a one-off
> patch, so I'd like to gauge the upstream thoughts - is it worth
> including platform-specific patches like this (no penalty to build size
> of non-cygwin platforms, and on cygwin, it allows 'cd c:/' to behave as
> shorthand for 'cd /cygdrive/c/')?  If the patch lands in dash.git, then
> I'll rebuild the cygwin port of dash to include a backport (rather than
> waiting for 0.5.9 to be released).  If there is no interest, I'd rather
> just drop the patch.  The cygwin community already states that
> /cygdrive/c notation is the official way to access drive letters, and
> that if 'c:/' works it is nice, but it is not a design goal to always
> have it work.

It's fine by me.

Cheers,
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