Hi, If I use paths that contain $ symbols, and backslash-escape them, I start seeing warnings about MS-DOS style paths in Cygwin bash. For example, where I hit <tab> after the .ssh/:
$ cp //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/ Preferred POSIX equivalent is: //pcname/C/$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/ CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames I believe the path I entered, //pcname/C\$/cygwin/home/add/.ssh/, is valid. The equivalent MS-DOS style path would be \\pcname\C$\cygwin\home\add\.ssh\. This appears to simply be an erroneous warning; everything else I tried works, including tab-completion, calls to cp or ls or similar. Leaving out the backslash-escape works, but only thanks to the particulars of bash's handling of $ and the next character being /. Single-quoting the path also avoids the warning, but prevents tab-completion. Partial quoting (ie //pcname/C'$'/cygwin/) has the '$' replaced by (the apparently erroneous) \$ when I attempt to use tab-completion! The only impact I can see is the "MS-DOS style path" warning, and I'm aware this is an edge case, so I'm not going to get excited about getting this fixed. I just figured I'd report a bug when I spotted one. (Thinking about it, I'm not sure it even is a bug; I could have been intending to talk about \\pcname\C\$ rather than \\pcname\C$. I suspect this may be another case where there's no ideal solution.) Output from cygcheck -s -v -r attached. I redirected stderr into that file, too, since I saw some errors about "OpenService failed ... Access is denied", and figured they'd be more useful interlaced with the regular output.
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