X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:47:25 -0400 From: "Lev Bishop" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive? In-Reply-To: <20070523165335.GQ6003@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070521041542 DOT GA23520 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20070521142944 DOT GC6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <004301c79bb6$c8c70db0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20070521152515 DOT GD6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20070521164542 DOT GF6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20070523165335 DOT GQ6003 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 5/23/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 21 18:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 21 11:55, Lev Bishop wrote: > > > On 5/21/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >Actually it seems to be better to disallow only combinations which > > > >explicitely don't make sense, but to allow any combination which make > > > >*some* sort of sense. The rules would be, afaics > > > > > > > >- Don't allow -d with -l. > > > >- Allow any other mix of -d, -l, -m and -w. > > > >- Don't allow -u with any of the above flags. > > > > > > > >Did I miss one? > > > > > > What about -s? > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00525.html > > > > > As i hinted in my previous message, the flags handling in cygpath is > > > inconsistent. > > > [...] > > > > Right, I noticed most of your observations when looking into the source > > code. I'm going to rewrite the option handling to be consistent. > > Sorta. Most of the time at least. Stay tuned. > > Done. The rules have changed slightly, but should be consistent now. > The option handling when reading from files (-o -f ...) is now identical > to the option handling from the the command line, except that the -o and > -f options are invalid when reading from a file. Now, one can't do, eg, "cygpath -w -S" to get the system directory in windows format (or even "cygpath -u -S" to explicitly ask for it in unix form. Previously these worked. Is that intentional? "cygpath -f" seems to ignore commandline options, eg to convert to windows format: $ cygpath -w -f - <<< /usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/bash "cygpath -of" seems to default to windows format rather than unix format, except for "system directory" options: $ /bin/echo -e "/usr/bin/bash\n-P" | cygpath -of - C:\cygwin\bin\bash /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Lev/Start Menu/Programs Lev -- 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/