Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:43:14 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygpath -a anomaly
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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:20:28PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>With cygdrive prefix = /, from the root directory of a drive (e.g.,
>/c = c:\ or /h = h:\), when asking for the absolute unix path with -au,
>cygpath doubles the / between the drive letter and the first directory
>of the path.
>
>  /h> echo Home | cygpath -au -f -
>  /h//Home
>  /h> echo Home | cygpath -aw -f -
>  h:\Home
>
>This does not happen when one is not in the root directory of the drive.
>
>  /h> cd Home
>  /h/Home> echo cartoons | cygpath -au -f -
>  /h/Home/cartoons
>  /h/Home> echo cartoons | cygpath -aw -f -
>  h:\Home\cartoons
>
>This does not happen when
>
>  /h> cd ..
>  /h> echo Home\\cartoons | cygpath -au -f -
>  /h//Home/cartoons
>  /h> echo Home/cartoons | cygpath -aw -f -
>  h:\Home\cartoons
>
>This is with cygwin 1.5, everything up to date.  Note that this also
>happens on C:.  Cygwin is in c:\\cygwin.

Not much is going to be done about this now.  This seems to work fine
on Cygwin 1.7.

cgf

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