Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/13/17:15:37
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:46:13AM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
> >>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Anton Ertl wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >If so, how should I deal with path names where parts of
> the path come
> >>> >from ordinary windows users?
> >>>
> >>> Either tell your Windows users to use forward slashes,
> tell them to
> >>> specify the path name using windows specs like f:\cygwin\foo\bar,
> >>> or change the backslashes to slashes.
> >>
> >>Wouldn't cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() and its relatives be a more
> >>general solution?
> >
> >Good point. It probably is, if that option is available.
>
> I'm sorry. No. Let me take that back.
>
> I think what is being done is that someone is typing /usr\local/bin.
> cygwin_conv_to_posix_path is not the right solution here. That would
> end up creating something like /cygdrive/c/usr/local/bin which is
> probably not what's intended.
I should have been more explicit -- I meant applying it to the
user-supplied possibly-Windows-style part of the path _before_ merging
it with the program-supplied rest of the path to make an absolute path.
--
Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand
"It's never too soon to start planning, and, in fact,
it's usually too late." -- Chad Orzel
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