Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <6616C063.DA004140@veritas.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:37:55 -0700 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrej Borsenkow CC: Cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: cygpath usage (was: RE: Posible bug in cygpath Windows -> Unix conversion) References: <000501c03282$23152720$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nope, you are right. I was just pointing out that, looking at the results of: cygpath -a -u a:abc and cygpath -u a:abc it looks like the command is treating the argument as absolute also, in this case. There was another message on this thread from Chris Faylor saying he had found the cause of the problem and fixed it. Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > > > > It looks like the conversion assumes a "drive_letter:slash" and so is > > cutting the first 3 characters, producing the output you see. This is > > probably the result of using the -a option, forcing cygpath to assume > > the source string is an absolute path when in fact it is not. > > > > I believe, the option -a means, that the *result* should be absolute path. > Look here: > > mw1g017@MW1G17C% cygpath -a -u foo > /cygdrive/c/win32app/bin/foo > mw1g017@MW1G17C% cygpath -a -w foo > c:\win32app\bin\foo > > At least, I always understood it this way. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > -andrej -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com