Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030319182259.02fbd330@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:25:14 -0800 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: 'cygpath -ml ' bug? In-Reply-To: <20030320015904.GI32580@redhat.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030319173807.02ba6d80@pop3.cris.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030319184305.09c2eea8@rogue.codemeta.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20030319173807.02ba6d80@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 17:59 2003-03-19, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:42:07PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >Lee, > > > >Perhaps. In particular, if one uses Windows mode (instead of mixed > >mode) you get the result I think you were expecting (except, of course, > >for the orientation of the name separators). > >Well, since POSIX doesn't have anything like "long file names" I think >you could say this isn't really a bug. The -l is a no-op in this case. > >Or one could always submit a patch... > >cgf Chris, The ostensibly failing mode is conversion _to_ a Windows format, not to POSIX format. You know, it just occurred to me that if I submitted half as many patches to open source projects as I put onto my bike's tires, I'd be a hero. Randall Schulz -- 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/