patch for cygpath

Schaible, Jorg Joerg.Schaible@gft.com
Wed Aug 8 00:51:00 GMT 2001


Hi Chris,

>>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I don't have much of an opinion on this patch however it seems to
>>>> needlessly complicate cygpath for minimal gain.
>>>> 
>>>
>>>Ditto.
>>
>>Well, it just ensures that the physical name is the delivered one.
>
>But it really doesn't matter since Windows is case insensitive and
>we're using Windows' mechanism for retrieving the name anyway.  It
>just seems like "busy work".

maybe we should ask Gerrit for further reasons, he raised this issue as bug
in the list. Gerrit: It's the "cygpath -S" output.

>
>I'd like to get some opinions on it.  So far we've just heard 
>from Earnie.
>

and Corinna 
:)


Regads,
Jorg



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