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: David Rees To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:51:37 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4nrbat4k7l19ndugn851cro7072ai9ftqt@4ax.com> <20010307111525.E18117@redhat.com> <329dat08cnf9q6i137l3udjhe0di2ehpd5@4ax.com> <20010307170352.B30908@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20010307170352.B30908@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id UAA07298 On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:03:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:29:23PM -0800, David Rees wrote: >>On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:19:29AM -0800, David Rees wrote: ... >> >>Your explanation makes sense, but shouldn't it be using the cygwin DLL >>to recognize that its directory path? Its obviously using the cygwin >>DLL to access the file. > >Cygwin uses the Windows API to do everything. Cygwin doesn't go out of >its way to disallow Windows paths. When patch passed the backslashed >file to cygwin, it happily passed it along to the correct Windows function >bypassing any translation to a "UNIX-like" path. > My thought was actually the reverse, that patch should somehow consult with the filesystem (i.e cygwin) to see if a given string is a relative path rather than somehow figuring it out itself. However, in retrospect that would require that cygwin has this API and also changing patch which I assume is avoided when possible for cygwin ports? >> >>Maybe its a version issue? Anyway, the obvious solution is always use >>-p0. > >I don't think so. I have never seen patch behave in this fashion. It >doesn't work this way on Linux, AFAICT. > Fair enough (the diffutils manual is dated 1993). Should I try and report it somehow? I have no idea where to report GNU doc bugs. thx, d -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple