Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/05/24/14:47:47
--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:05:12AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >I've a small program which shows a problem in the pathing routines.
> >First, the problem starts because path.cc assumes that any string
> >containing a \ is a win32 path. And if it begins with \ it assumes an
> >absolute win32 path. IMO, this is wrong. In the past cygwin supported
> >the backslash for the cygwin path as well. I think it still should.
>
> As I've previously stated, the change was made some time ago to make
> cygwin ignore the mount table when it sees a Windows path. This is so
> that people will not be confused when they specify Windows paths. Since
> the use of a backslash has no meaning on UNIX I don't see this as
> a terrible thing.
>
> That means that /tmp is not necessarily equal to \tmp.
I strongly disagree. Cygwin has always made / and \ equal when referring to
path names. And, IMNSHO, it should continue to do so.
Cheers,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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