On finishing the job of replacing system commands
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reading the issue’s discussion about replacement behavior from C:\Windows\System32 and follow the linked Microsoft report. No source files, tests, or entry points are named, so first locate the replacement mechanism and determine which commands are in scope. Done should address the System32 scenario without clobbering Windows\System32, with any required command replacements defined.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
As you probably noticed, the replacement mechanism doesn't work properly when the current directory is C:\Windows\System32 (which wouldn't be that bad if it weren't the default directory of an elevated command prompt).
I considered literally clobbering the commands in Windows\System32 so the coreutils commands would be found. This is not recommended due to servicing reasons.
Thus, I filed https://aka.ms/AA11lcib for the Windows side of it.
If Microsoft actually listens to me they'll move find into its own package so it can be uninstalled independently; but if not we may find ourselves in the position of rebuilding the replace and tree commands as well. Tree is trivial; if I knew Rust I could do so immediately. Replace is not.
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 5.2k
- Forks
- 107
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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