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Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:45:34 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: Problem with chdir and GetCurrentDirectory on Windows 2016
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Greetings, Dipak Gaigole!

>>>>
>>>> So in this situation, is it possible to get the cwd value as
>>>> "/cygdrive/c/temp/appdir/bin" using some cygwin API?
>>>
>>> No, it is generally not possible to get the POSIX path to anything in
>>> the cygwin root (/) tree to be prefixed by the /cygdrive prefix. The
>>> /cygdrive prefix exists solely to resolve paths that are outside of /,
>>> so paths inside that tree don't need the /cygdrive prefix.
>>>
>> This path is also displayed to the enduser at different places. So our
>> requirement is to always get a path in the /cygdrive/ prefix format
>> irrespective of whether it is inside the cygwin root (/) or outside of
>> /.

> I think this can be achieved by getcwd () +
> cygwin_conv_path(CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A,...) and converting the windows
> style path to /cygdrive/ prefix format.

No, this is wrong approach.
Do not do manual path manipulation, it WILL fail.
Always use corrsponding conversion tools provided by Cygwin.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, December 8, 2016 21:44:42

Sorry for my terrible english...


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