Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C0FEDC1.BD4C0E14@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:14:25 -0800 From: David Rothenberger X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ryan T. Sammartino" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.6-3 and xemacs References: <20011206154936.GA22573@redhat.com> <20011206175147.GB28243@localhost> <3C0FCB23.2EDCC0B0@verizon.net> <20011206203538.GA28805@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think it's related. My little test program shows that when cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list() is called with "/cygdrive", it also returns an empty string. Strangely, "/cydrive/" returns "\". I have no idea why xemacs is calling the function with "/cygdrive" when following symlinks like the ones you described, but it does. Maybe cgf can fix this behavior, too... Dave "Ryan T. Sammartino" wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:46:43AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > > I've done a little debugging and here's what I've found out. > > > > It appears to be a problem/change to the behavior of > > cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list(). When this function is called with a > > path of the form "/cygdrive/z/something", it returns an empty string > > unless the drive "z" actually exists. This seems incorrect to me, since > > this function always returns a valid Windows path for other POSIX paths, > > even if the file or directory doesn't actually exist. > > > > Even more troubling, the function appears to return garbage when called > > with "/cygdrive/z" or "/cygdrive/z/", unless "z" is a valid drive. > > > > I dunno if that is related to the problem I'm having. I'm trying to > open a file like ~/project/foo, and ~/project is a symlink to > /cygdrive/d/project, and drive D certainly exists for me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/