Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygpath bug?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:14:27 -0700
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <bcct45$4ob$1@main.gmane.org>
References: <bcan6d$67i$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <bcan6d$67i$1@main.gmane.org>

BB wrote:

> Shouldn't GetShortPathName() == 0 always cause the get_short_name()
> function to fail?

I would sincerely hope not. I see no reason why cygpath conversion has 
to be tied to the existence of files. We often need to use cygpath to 
convert between formats for files which we are about to create.

e.g.

   notepad `cygpath -d "/cygdrive/c/some nonexistent file.txt"`

will make notepad create that file for me.



--
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/