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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Changes in path handling in Cygwin-1.1.1
To: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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FYI:

The following information may or may not cause you problems:

Prior to cygwin-1.1.1 a path beginning with a \ was treated the same as a path
beginning with a /.  As of cygwin-1.1.1 paths beginning with \ are now
considered absolute windows paths while paths beginning with / are considered
absolute cygwin paths.  Also, a path containing but not starting with a \ will
be considered a relative windows path.  I have no idea what happens yet if
there is a mix.

This means that if you have cygwin installed in d:\Cygwin-1.1 ( this is the /
mount point ) and you have a d:\tmp directory as well as a d:\Cygwin-1.1\tmp
directory and you reference /tmp you are actually referencing
d:\Cygwin-1.1\tmp.  If you reference \\tmp then you're actually referencing
d:\tmp.

Also, if you `mount -b H:\ /home' and you have a directory H:\tmp, and you cd
to /home then the reference to \\tmp will be to H:\tmp not d:\tmp.

Other developers please comment if I've said anything incorrectly.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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