From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: cygnus bugs
13 Jul 1997 21:42:38 -0700
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franl AT world DOT std DOT omit-this DOT com (Francis Litterio) writes:

>[Fergus Henderson wrote:]
>
>> Tim Newsham <newsham AT aloha DOT net> writes:
>> 
>> >- cygwin does not properly transform command line path names across
>> >  mount points.  If I am on drive "D:" and type "vi /tmp/foo",
>> >  I end up editing "D:\tmp\foo" and not "C:\tmp\foo" even though
>> >  "/tmp" is on "C:".  (vi is not compiled with cygwin).
>> >  Cygwin should transform the path to "C:\tmp\foo" for the benefit
>> >  of non-cygwin applications.
>> 
>> How can cygwin know which arguments are pathnames and which are
>> just ordinary strings that should not be transformed in this manner?
>
>Cygwin can know because the strings that are pathnames are passed to
>open(), [...]

No, in the case that Tim Newsham was referring to, "vi is not compiled
with cygwin", and so the strings that are pathnames are not passed
to cygwin's open().

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