[MinGW-Users] Strange behavior of MSYS shell version 5.1.8

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Eli Zaretskii eliz****@gnu*****
Fri Dec 9 21:22:11 JST 2022


> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 10:29:44 +0100
> From: Frank Redeker <frank****@razor*****>
> 
> Hello List,
> 
> I have a strange behavior when the executing a program in a MSYS shell 
> version 5.1.8. I'm on Windows 10 Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.2251). The 
> strange behavior occurs when a path is on a drive created with subst.
> 
> The following steps can be used to reproduce the behavior.
> 
> Inside a Windows CMD
> 
> C:\Users\f.redeker>subst s: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\System"
> C:\Users\f.redeker>subst
> S:\: => C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
> 
> Inside a shell version 5.1.8
> 
> sh-5.1$ uname -a
> MSYS_NT-10.0-18362 MIMIR-W10-64 3.2.0-340.x86_64 2021-07-02 08:36 UTC 
> x86_64 Msys
> 
> sh-5.1$ sh --version
> GNU bash, version 5.1.8(1)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)
> Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> 
> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I think you are using MSYS2 programs, in which case you are in the
wrong mailing list.  MSYS supported by this list is version 1.0.17 and
its Bash is version 3.1.17(1).



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