Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/09/13:44:15
Chris Faylor [cgf AT cygnus DOT com] writes:
> We have flushed out a few cases where there was incorrect path
manipulation
> with the recent change to cygwin. There is no way that a UNIX program
should
> be mixing '\' and '/' but it does happen in tcl and in some places in
libiberty.
>
> This is usually an indication of something being broken that is being
masked
> by cygwin and I am sure that these kinds of things are responsible for the
> occasional random reports that we see from people who are unable to open
files.
Yeah, you know - the more I think about it, my encounters with mixed paths
tend to be when interacting with non-Cygwin tools, in which case even though
the path is mixed, it's coming from an environment that is expecting it to
be treated as a native Windows path, so you're probably right that the
current check would stil be the most accurate.
-- David
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