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On 2/16/2014 1:21 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:

<snip>

> It provide no information at all in any event (be it missing argument, or
> nonexistent path (not like it's checking for existence right now... which only
> making situation more complicated)), requiring non-obvious, manually conceived
> tests to ensure that the program operates orderly.

I think you're looking for more from cygpath than it's designed to give.
Its intent is to perform direct Windows<->POSIX path conversions using the
mount table and to provide access to some system defined paths in Windows.
That's really it.  It is not meant to validate input or output.  If you have
a use case which requires that only valid paths are input to or output
from cygpath, that does need to be handled upstream or downstream.

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Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
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