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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:22:03 -0400
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Subject:	Re: Treatment of x:path again
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In-Reply-To:	<004201c0378b$da8b7bd0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:12:17PM +0400

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:12:17PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>
>>
>> How would you suggest having something be 'relative to the current path'
>> in cygwin, given the /cygdrive method of doing things?  cygwin has never
>> kept track of the current directory of other drives.
>>
>
>Searching MSDN gives:
>
>Routine Use
>_chdir, _wchdir Change current working directory
>_chdrive Change current drive
>_getcwd, _wgetcwd Get current working directory for default drive
>_getdcwd, _wgetdcwd Get current working directory for specified drive
>_getdrive Get current (default) drive
>_mkdir, _wmkdir Make new directory
>_rmdir, _wrmdir Remove directory
>_searchenv, _wsearchenv Search for given file on specified paths

>_getdcwd looks promising. It is part of msvcrt.dll; and is included in Cygwin
>export lib:

>mw1g017 AT MW1G17C% nm /usr/lib/libmsvcrt.a | grep getdcwd
>00000000 I __imp___wgetdcwd
>00000000 T __wgetdcwd
>00000000 T __getdcwd
>00000000 I __imp___getdcwd

You can't mix cygwin with msvcrt.

>> If you'd like to submit a patch to somehow accomplish this, I'd be happy
>> to apply it.
>>
>
>I may. Is module winsup still enough to build cygwin1.dll?

In theory.

cgf

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