bug#70012: shell-resync-dirs broken on windows

[Sam Steingold]

which bash builds are supported on windows?

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 at 12:52, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> tags 70012 notabug wontfix
> thanks
>
> > From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:25:13 -0400
> >
> > Windows emacs 29.2
> > Msys2 bash dirs returns something like "/c/foo" for "c:/foo" and 
> > (file-directory-p "/c/foo") returns nil even
> > though "c:/foo" is a directory.
> > Thus shell-resync-dirs goes into an infinite loop.
>
> Sorry, the native Windows build of Emacs is not supposed to support
> MSYS- or Cygwin-specific magic in file names.  We cannot support that
> without significant complications in the low-level code, and even if
> that code can be made to work, users are not supposed to give up
> top-level directories named /x (where 'x' is a letter).
>
> If you want these names supported, try the Cygwin or Cygw32 build
> instead (but I'm not sure even those builds support /c/foo/bar file
> names).
>
> This is not a bug, and we should not even try fixing it.  IOW, using
> MSYS Bash in shell buffers is not supported in the MS-Windows build.



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