X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:29:34 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: cygwin_conv_path strange behavior From: Jan Nijtmans To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q5RCTw70021177 2012/6/27 Earnie Boyd : > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Jan Nijtmans wrote: >> >> Now, copy cygwin1.dll to the same directory >> as mypath.exe, and do the same >> from a cygwin shell, it prints: >>    $ ./mypath >>    win32 path: C:\some\path\foo\mypath.exe >>    posix path: /cygdrive/c/some/path/foo/mypath.exe >> From a win32 command shell: >>    > .\mypath >>    win32 path: C:\some\path\foo\mypath.exe >>    posix path: /foo/mypath.exe >> > > This sounds it is as expected.  You copied only cygwin1.dll so the > shell you started had a cygwin1.dll in another directory so that / is > mapped to the parent directory containing the cygwin1.dll the shell is > using.  However, when you use the win32 command shell there is no > previous mapping of / to the parent directory containing cygwin1.dll > so / is mapped to c:/some/path and the function correctly reports > /foo/mypath.exe. OK, so cygwin1.dll always maps "/" to its parent directory, if no other mapping can be found. But from a win32 command shell, I don't need such a mapping, I just want to know the full path where the executable is. How can I influence that? Thanks! Regards, Jan Nijtmans -- 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