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 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:37:26 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath doubles backslashes Message-ID: <20020227153726.GD28812@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3C7CEBCF.BDBD6D33@iee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C7CEBCF.BDBD6D33@iee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:23:11PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote: >when /usr/bin is converted by "cygpath -w -p" it doubles the number of >backslashes produced > >$ cygpath -w -p /usr/bin:/bin >G:\\bin;G:\bin > >Not sure if this is a desirable side-effect. > >$ mount >G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) >G:\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) >c:\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode) > >All software latest available yesterday Did you look at the above mount table? You're using two backslashes in your mount and cygpath is dutifully using what you've told it to use. cgf -- 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/