Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/07/13/03:37:45
On Jul 12 21:01, Pavel Kudrna wrote:
> After that change cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() treats all following paths
> in the same
> way:
> c:\ /cygdrive/c
> c: /cygdrive/c
> c:\.\ /cygdrive/c/
> c:\. /cygdrive/c
> c:.\ /cygdrive/c/./
> c:. /cygdrive/c/.
> Before the suggested change last two items were slashified only.
C:. in DOS terms is *not* the same as /cygdrive/c/. C:. is something
which has no meaning in the POSIX world. There is no such thing as a
drive-relative current working directory [DCWD] in POSIX. The above
conversion is plain wrong. I don't see how converting a pure DOS-ism
into a wrong POSIX path is doing any good.
As for the idea to use the environment variables storing the DCWD in
Cygwin, these variables are being created by CMD.EXE(*). So they don't
even exist if you start your shell without the detour of starting a
batch file. They don't exist when you start your shell with a desktop
shortcut, by starting rxvt, or by starting your shell through a remote
ssh session. Trick question: How is Cygwin supposed to convert C:.
correctly when there's no information about the DCWD for drive C?
The bottom line is, I don't think it makes sense to convert C:. into a
POSIX path at all.
Corinna
(*) and, funny enough, there's no API call in Win32 to return a DCWD.
There's just a call GetCurrentDirectory() which returns *the* CWD.
Which makes sense, given that the RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS can only
store one CWD per process.
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