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 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:17:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: bash: difference between //c/ and c:/ Message-ID: <20010315191709.A15434@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <71171405@toto.iv> <15024.62910.662998.88543@jupiter.akutech-local.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15024.62910.662998.88543@jupiter.akutech-local.de>; from ralf@akutech.de on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100 On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote: > * Corinna Vinschen > | Bash is a UNIX shell. Why not using UNIX paths? > > Because we use non-Cygwin programs which don't grok /cygwin pathnames. > Unfortunately, there is a world besides cygwin. > > $ cl t.c -o t > Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 11.00.7022 for 80x86 > ... > $ ./t /cygdrive/c/autoexec.bat c:/autoexec.bat > 1: /cygdrive/c/autoexec.bat: fopen failed > 2: c:/autoexec.bat: fopen succeeded > > | Actually not C:/ is deprictaed but //c! The syntax is ambiguous > | since that could also address a SMB server. We may decide to > | eliminate that syntax for local drives completely in the future. > > Uh, please don't... :-/ Aren't single letter SMB servers rather rare? > > | Use the /cygdrive/c syntax instead. > > As I described in another mail, this currently breaks my openssh > installation, so I stick with //c for now. Why don't you mount your drives and drop the double slash: mount -f -s -b C: /c ... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple