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On Jul 17 16:54, Rob Walker wrote:
Reini Urban wrote:
[RGW] This is interesting news to me. This would break the planned GNUColons in filenames are fine and will be supported with cygwin-1.7. But c:/ it will not map to the root of some c drive, it will map to the subdir "c:" For now we had to use managed mounts for such names, soon we will be able to see readable names.
make support for MSDOS paths under Cygwin, wouldn't it? On which Windows
filesystems will this be useful? In other words, where might one see a
directory named "c:" on a Windows box?
Cygwin is a POSIX emulation layer in the first place. That's what we
are committed to in the first place. Why would you want to use Win32
paths in a POSIX environment, except as parameter to native Win32 tools?
For dependency tracking in make there's no good reason to use the Win32 path.
You can just as well use the POSIX equivalent. If you have to
convert between paths, there's the cygpath tool.
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