Re: expand_wild different behaviour on NT & cygwin

[Jim Hyslop]

Larry Jones wrote:
> Jim Hyslop writes:
>
> > If you call expand_wild() and pass it "." as an argument, the Visual 
> > Studio version converts it to the current directory name (i.e. if the 
> > current directory is c:\some_path\directory\, "." becomes "directory"). 
> > Under cygwin, it remains as "."
>
>
> I believe the difference is intentional.  As I understand it, "." works
> as CVS expects under cygwin but it does not work as CVS expects in
> native Windows, so the translation was necessary.

Do you recall any other context for that translation? Which command, for 
example, caused the problem?

The current behaviour is causing odd problems with the command "cvs 
watch add ." With the Visual Studio build (which translates "." to 
"directory") you get a very strange entry in fileattr:

Fdirectory      _watchers=(..etc..)

instead of

D       _watchers=(...etc...)

In my working directory, I've modified the Windows version of 
expand_wild to leave "." alone, and now the watch behaves properly. I 
think it's important for expand_wild to have the same behaviour on both 
platforms.

--
Jim