Re: [Mingw-msys] Possible bug? POSIX paths

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:26 AM, BGINFO for X <bgi...@kz...> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> After reading some documentation about PATHS,
> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion
>
> I have some problems doing a trivial "ls" with windows paths (no spaces).
>
> I have done 5 tests:
>
> 1) Windows path one folder - It works!
>
> $ ls -la c:\windows
>
> ls: c:windows/CSC:
>
> total 23080
>
> drwxr-xr-x 64 k Administradores 28672 Jan 18 19:48 .
>
> drwxsr-xr-x 22 k Administradores 16384 Feb 6 16:38 ..
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 k Administradores 5242934 Nov 5 08:30 BGInfo.bmp
>
> ...
>
>
>
> 2) POSIX path one folder -> It works!
>
> $ ls -la c:/windows
>
> ls: c:/windows/CSC:
>
> total 23080
>
> drwxr-xr-x 64 k Administradores 28672 Jan 18 19:48 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x 22 k Administradores 16384 Feb 6 16:38 ..
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 k Administradores 5242934 Nov 5 08:30 BGInfo.bmp
>
> ...
>
>
> 3) POSIX path subfolder (ADAM) -> It works!
>
> $ ls -la c:/windows/ADAM
>
> total 3384
>
> drwxr-xr-x 37 k Administradores 4096 Mar 20 2012 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x 64 k Administradores 28672 Jan 18 19:48 ..
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 k Administradores 253952 Nov 20 2010 ADSchemaAnalyzer.exe
>
> ...
>
>
> 4) Windows path subfolder (ADAM) -> It doesn't works!
>
> $ ls -la c:\windows\ADAM
>
> ls: c:windowsADAM: No such file or directory
>
>
> 5) Windows path subfolder (ADAM) QUOTED -> It works!
>
> $ ls -la "c:\windows\ADAM"
>
> total 3384
>
> drwxr-xr-x 37 k Administradores 4096 Mar 20 2012 .
>
> drwxr-xr-x 64 k Administradores 28672 Jan 18 19:48 ..
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 k Administradores 253952 Nov 20 2010 ADSchemaAnalyzer.exe
>
>
> My question is: Why test 4 doesn't work?
>
> If there is only one folder, it works (test 1).
>
> I don't understand why adding subfolders fails.
>
> Is there any reason?
>
> I'm doing something wrong?
>
>
> Why test 5 works?
>
> I think that quoting here is not necessary.
>
> But In fact I don't mind if works with quotes. My real question is test 4.
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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