X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:01:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck bug: symlinks with unix paths are wrongly resolved Message-ID: <20101021040136.GB12901@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1078952009.20101020101725@ich.dvo.ru> <20101020235907.GA12901@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <1724846205.20101021064616@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1724846205.20101021064616@mtu-net.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 06:46:16AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Christopher Faylor! > >>>[snip...] >>>> As@dstar ~ >>>> $ ln -s `which cmd.exe` cmd.exe >>>> >>>> As@dstar ~ >>>> $ cygcheck ./cmd.exe >>>> -> D:\OTHERBIN\cygwin\cygdrive\d\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe >>>> cygcheck: could not find './cmd.exe' >>> >>>cygcheck is not a cygwin application, it's a native windows application, >>>so it does not know how to resolve unix paths. > >> Sure it does: > >Not to mention, the Windows itself don't see much of a difference between "/" >and "\" in path. (where it see, it is a bug). I should clarify. cygcheck does understand UNIX paths. It does not understand symlinks just like the OP said. Sorry for not making that clear. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple