X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:27:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: colons in Cygwin (was Re: make-3.81-3 (ITA??)) Message-ID: <20080718082739.GF5675@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <487E8966.7020509@qualcomm.com> <20080717004748.GA30298@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <487FAB2D.4000201@qualcomm.com> <487FAFD9.2030501@x-ray.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487FAFD9.2030501@x-ray.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jul 17 22:47, Reini Urban wrote: > Rob Walker schrieb: >> I didn't mean for anyone (especially the package maintainer) to infer >> that make wasn't being actively supported. My apologies for any >> misunderstanding. >> I'm very interested in your opinions on colons in paths. I'd prefer to >> hear directly what they are, to avoid any misunderstanding that might >> arise from me trying to glean them from the archives. >> Questions I have in particular: >> 1. what are your thoughts on POSIX support for colons in paths? > > Colons in filenames are fine and will be supported with cygwin-1.7. > But c:/ it will not map to the root of some c drive, it will map to the > subdir "c:" Uhm... not quite. While colons will work as normal parts of a filename in the general case, it's still very hairy to differ between an incoming POSIX and an incoming Win32 path in case of a path starting with X: Cygwin 1.7 still isn't Win32 input path agnostic and can't be, because a couple of internals also rely on this feature so far. The result is that, for the time being, paths starting with X:/ or X:\ are handled as Win32 paths. So, to treat c:/ as subdir c:, you have to prepend a ./ in 1.7. I'm not happy with this, but I think (and hope) it's a minor discomfort. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/