Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 19:58, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 8 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would > >>introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 > >>is > >>released") sugg

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-08 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 8 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 is released") suggest that an updated cygwin1.dll might be imminent. Please could I ment

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would > introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 is > released") suggest that an updated cygwin1.dll might be imminent. > Please could I mention a minor but

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-07 Thread fergus
Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 is released") suggest that an updated cygwin1.dll might be imminent. Please could I mention a minor but annoying glitch described along with Corinna's imm

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 12 16:17, Dave Korn wrote: > > I reckon you could quote > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_0 > > 4_11 > > to support the claim that what bash is doing is actually an invalid > >

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 12 16:17, Dave Korn wrote: > I reckon you could quote > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_0 > 4_11 > to support the claim that what bash is doing is actually an invalid > transformation and should be considered a bug. That page says > > "A pathna

RE: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: 12 May 2004 15:09 > In bash, the path "/" is accidentally converted to "//" > before it tries > to call opendir() on it. On any other POSIX system, that > doesn't matter > since "//" has no special meaning.

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 11 07:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just lately (all recent snapshots including 20040510) I'm noticing a failure > with tab completion for pathnames beginning /. Thus, I would expect, and in > the past have achieved > > ls /ho > ls /home/ > or > md5sum /usloc > md5

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2004-05-11 08:25 +0100) > Just lately (all recent snapshots including 20040510) I'm noticing a failure > with tab completion for pathnames beginning /. Thus, I would expect, and in > the past have achieved > > ls /ho > ls /home/ > or > md5sum /usloc >

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-11 Thread fergus
>> Interesting. >> No problems with tcsh or zsh. >> Just bash misbehaves. Corinna, Couldn't work out whether you were enquiring further into my own experience or (as I hope and suspect) reporting yours. But yes, I get no problems with tcsh or zsh, just as reported with bash (and, if it's worth re

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 11 07:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just lately (all recent snapshots including 20040510) I'm noticing a failure > with tab completion for pathnames beginning /. Thus, I would expect, and in > the past have achieved > > ls /ho > ls /home/ > or > md5sum /usloc >