New modes for cygpath that terminate path with null byte, nothing

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 16 08:41:00 GMT 2012


On Aug 14 22:11, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 8/14/12 10:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:49:17PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> >> On 7/27/2012 2:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> There's just the problem of the copyright assignment.  If you want to
> >>> provide a non-obvious patch, or if the patch adds new functionality, we
> >>> need a copyright assignment from you.  Please see the section "Before
> >>> you get started" on http://cygwin.com/contrib.html and the assignment
> >>> form http://cygwin.com/assign.txt
> >>>
> >>> As soon as my manager has the assignment, I'll apply your patch.
> >>
> >> Do you guys still want the patch (and papers that go with it)? If so, could I
> >> discuss the particulars of the assignment off-list somewhere?
> > 
> > As I mentioned, it seems like you can easily get the functionality
> > you're looking for by using standard Cygwin tools so, IMO, we don't need
> > your patch.
> 
> I didn't know what the final decision was; that's why I asked. Corinna
> said she wanted the patch. As for the feature itself: piping through
> tr is fine, but having cygpath output paths in the desired way in the
> first place keeps error information around (without pipefail, $? is
> tr's exit status) and involves fewer forks. There's precedent in "echo
> -n" too.

What's your problem with the assignment form?  You can send me PM
to my address as mentioned in the ChangeLog files.


Corinna

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