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A *work-in-progress* non-posix modern unix shell.

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[RFC] Window$? #14

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

This news is very encouraging: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/C906

_I'm waiting for the next Windows 1y. :stuck_outtongue:

ghost commented 8 years ago

News: PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

Repo: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

jakwings commented 7 years ago

Perhaps...

Symlinks and CWD (current working directory) on Windows works differently from Unix. Bash/zsh has the $PWD trick, but still cannot fool getcwd(). Might be a problem. Another problem is special file names.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getcwd.html https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#naming_conventions

jakwings commented 7 years ago

More notes:

C:file.txt\.. points to C: (Mind you, not C:\.), because .. is resolved before symlinks.
C:\.. still points to C:\, just like the Unix way.
UNC paths like \\server\share\.. still points to the prefix \\server\share.
\\.\ is a special prefix for Win32 Device Namespaces.
\ for NT Namespaces.
File I/O functions in the Windows API convert "/" to "\" as part of converting the name to an NT-style name, except when using the "\\?\" prefix as detailed in the following sections.