Re: [PATCH] Support DOS paths in dash

[Edward Lam <edward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Is that a yes to allow platform-specific patches into dash?

Thanks,
-Edward
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