Re: cygwin pathing

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

First of all: Cygwin != Bash

What you are looking at is a difference in behaviour between two versions of
Bash: one is buggy, the other one is not. The buggy one - contrary to what
you apparently expect - is the first one.

Cygwin is a POSIX emulation layer. As such, the paths it uses are POSIX-ised.
c:/directory becomes /cygdrive/c/directory. This is the expected behaviour and
will not be changed back.

As for configuration files and somesuch that control this behaviour, there are
none: it is hard-coded because it is a Good Thing.

If you do want the Windows versions of the path, use the cygpath utility.

HTH

rlc


On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:14:13AM -0400, Kevin S. wrote:
> I'm currently trying to duplicate a cygwin environment on another system.
> There is one behavior which I haven't been able to solve yet.  For instance:
> 
> Original system (cygwin v2.05a.0(3)-release):
>     you type:    "cd c:/directory"
>     you get:      "c:/directory"
> 
> New system (cygwin v2.05b.0(13)-release):
>     you type    "cd c:/directory"
>     you get:     "/cygdrive/c/directory"
> 
> Both systems run Windows 2000 sp3.  I've looked at /etc/profile,
> /home/<user>/.bash_profile and there is no .bashrc file on the original
> system.  Are there any other files which might dictate the difference in the
> above behavior?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Kevin S.
> kseiffer@kronos.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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