How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May 23 18:47, Lev Bishop wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Corinna Vinschen <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote:


http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR


> >Done.   The rules have changed slightly, but should be consistent now.
> >The option handling when reading from files (-o -f ...) is now identical
> >to the option handling from the the command line, except that the -o and
> >-f options are invalid when reading from a file.
> 
> Now, one can't do, eg,  "cygpath -w -S" to get the system directory in
> windows format (or even "cygpath -u -S" to explicitly ask for it in
> unix form. Previously these worked. Is that intentional?

That's called a bug, I guess.

> "cygpath -f" seems to ignore commandline options, eg to convert to
> windows format:
> $ cygpath -w -f - <<< /usr/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/bash
> 
> "cygpath -of" seems to default to windows format rather than unix
> format, except for "system directory" options:
> 
> $ /bin/echo -e "/usr/bin/bash\n-P" | cygpath -of -
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Lev/Start Menu/Programs

I have a new version, but it requires a patch to newlib.  The fixes
will be in the next developer's snapshot, as soon as the newlib fix
has been approved.


Corinna

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