Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/08/23:39:03
Since we've recently made the change to cygwin to consider the
existence of a '\' as a Windows path, we are not going to be
applying this patch. Sorry.
cgf
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:30:48PM -0700, John Paulson wrote:
>Problem:
>
> At work we develop using cygwin. Some source is inhouse,
> other comes from outside. Most source has "/" as the path
> delimiter. However, some outside source has "\" in various
> places (such as #include). Cygwin prior to 1.1 (b20 and 99r1)
> handled this properly. Cygwin 1.1 and later don't; the "\"
> forces interpretation as an MS-DOS path and the "/" aren't
> properly translated. We don't want to edit files to convert
> "\" to "/"; that is not acceptable.
>
>
>Solution:
>
> This change will treat a path as an MS-DOS path if one of two
> conditions are true:
>
> The path has a ":" character in it, or
> The path has a "\" character and no "/" character.
>
> The previous test was if either ":" or "\" was present.
>
>
>ChangeLog entry
>
>2000-06-08 munch paulson <munch AT powertv DOT com>
>
> * path.cc (mount_info::conv_to_win32_path): if both '\' and '/' in
> path then treat as posix path, not win.
>
>
>
>Patch
>
>*** path.cc.orig Thu Jun 8 19:32:08 2000
>--- path.cc Thu Jun 8 19:40:04 2000
>***************
>*** 942,950 ****
> if (dst == NULL)
> goto out; /* Sanity check. */
>
>! /* An MS-DOS spec has either a : or a \. If this is found, short
> circuit most of the rest of this function. */
>! if (strpbrk (src_path, ":\\") != NULL)
> {
> debug_printf ("%s already win32", src_path);
> rc = normalize_win32_path (current_directory_name, src_path, dst);
>--- 942,951 ----
> if (dst == NULL)
> goto out; /* Sanity check. */
>
>! /* An MS-DOS spec has either a : or a \ and no /. If this is found, short
> circuit most of the rest of this function. */
>! if (strchr (src_path, ':') != NULL
>! || (strchr (src_path, '\\') != NULL && strchr (src_path, '/') == NULL))
> {
> debug_printf ("%s already win32", src_path);
> rc = normalize_win32_path (current_directory_name, src_path, dst);
>
>----------------------------
>John Paulson
>PowerTV, Inc.
>Tel: 408/777-4769
>Fax: 408/777-0176
>mailto:paulson AT powertv DOT com
>http://www.powertv.com/
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