X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:39:27 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path Message-ID: <20070704213927.GC16838@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <468A1024 DOT 8000007 AT mff DOT cuni DOT cz> <468A441A DOT 2000009 AT cygwin DOT com> <468B657B DOT 3050306 AT mff DOT cuni DOT cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <468B657B.3050306@mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) 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 Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Pavel Kudrna wrote: >Do you mean that the variables are present but hidden in that case? It depends on what you mean by hidden. Cygwin is a windows application so obviously it can get to them as could any other windows application which tried hard enough. Cygwin just doesn't bother trying to interpret them. I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even possible to do this cleanly given the way the environment variable/path conversion handling works. cgf -- 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/