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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Regression in 1.5.14 cygpath
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:14:08 +0000
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Cygpath no longer chases cygwin symlinks in the middle of a path when I upgrade to cygwin 1.5.14.  This is a regression, causing Windows programs that are fed the output of `cygpath -w' to choke with no such file.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 eblake 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
$ ln -s '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/eblake/Desktop' ~/desktop
$ mkdir ~/desktop/release
$ cygpath -w ~ ~/desktop ~/desktop/release
C:\cygwin\home\eblake
c:\Documents and Settings\eblake\Desktop
c:\Documents and Settings\eblake\Desktop\release
$
[Upgrade...]
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 eblake 1.5.14(0.126/4/2) 2005-04-01 13:40 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
$ cygpath -w ~ ~/desktop ~/desktop/release
C:\cygwin\home\eblake
c:\Documents and Settings\eblake\Desktop
C:\cygwin\home\eblake\desktop\release
$

To be useful, cygpath must fully resolve a pathname, not just the last component.

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Eric Blake

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