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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:36:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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2011/4/11 Marc Girod:
> Andy Koppe wrote:
>> You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to
>> Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with
>> C:\cygwin.
> OK. Done.
> Now, my script will fork this for every argument...
> Can I spawn a 'cygpath -w', put it in the background, and get it to read
> stdin
> and write to stdout through pipes?

cygwin perl has a fast API for path and mountpoint translation.

$ perldoc perlcygwin
=3D> Prebuilt methods

--=20
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