Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/07/18/04:26:09
On Jul 17 22:47, Reini Urban wrote:
> Rob Walker schrieb:
>> I didn't mean for anyone (especially the package maintainer) to infer
>> that make wasn't being actively supported. My apologies for any
>> misunderstanding.
>> I'm very interested in your opinions on colons in paths. I'd prefer to
>> hear directly what they are, to avoid any misunderstanding that might
>> arise from me trying to glean them from the archives.
>> Questions I have in particular:
>> 1. what are your thoughts on POSIX support for colons in paths?
>
> Colons in filenames are fine and will be supported with cygwin-1.7.
> But c:/ it will not map to the root of some c drive, it will map to the
> subdir "c:"
Uhm... not quite. While colons will work as normal parts of a filename
in the general case, it's still very hairy to differ between an incoming
POSIX and an incoming Win32 path in case of a path starting with X:
Cygwin 1.7 still isn't Win32 input path agnostic and can't be, because a
couple of internals also rely on this feature so far. The result is
that, for the time being, paths starting with X:/ or X:\ are handled as
Win32 paths.
So, to treat c:/ as subdir c:, you have to prepend a ./ in 1.7. I'm not
happy with this, but I think (and hope) it's a minor discomfort.
Corinna
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