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 From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:22:03 -0400 To: Cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: Treatment of x:path again Message-ID: <20001016122203.A12024@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin mailing list References: <20001016115319.C11579@cygnus.com> <004201c0378b$da8b7bd0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <004201c0378b$da8b7bd0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:12:17PM +0400 On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:12:17PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > >> >> How would you suggest having something be 'relative to the current path' >> in cygwin, given the /cygdrive method of doing things? cygwin has never >> kept track of the current directory of other drives. >> > >Searching MSDN gives: > >Routine Use >_chdir, _wchdir Change current working directory >_chdrive Change current drive >_getcwd, _wgetcwd Get current working directory for default drive >_getdcwd, _wgetdcwd Get current working directory for specified drive >_getdrive Get current (default) drive >_mkdir, _wmkdir Make new directory >_rmdir, _wrmdir Remove directory >_searchenv, _wsearchenv Search for given file on specified paths >_getdcwd looks promising. It is part of msvcrt.dll; and is included in Cygwin >export lib: >mw1g017@MW1G17C% nm /usr/lib/libmsvcrt.a | grep getdcwd >00000000 I __imp___wgetdcwd >00000000 T __wgetdcwd >00000000 T __getdcwd >00000000 I __imp___getdcwd You can't mix cygwin with msvcrt. >> If you'd like to submit a patch to somehow accomplish this, I'd be happy >> to apply it. >> > >I may. Is module winsup still enough to build cygwin1.dll? In theory. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com