Strange cygpath behavior.

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, All!

I'm facing an unacceptable cygpath behavior related to the network shares.

The testcase is:

[\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
//DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

[\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -m \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
//DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

[\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -lm \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
//DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

[\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

[\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -m "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
///DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

[\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -lm "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
///DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

Only unquoted path producing usable results, but it's not realistically
imaginable I would let it run this way.
One day I will sure meet a file with "]" in it's name, and the surrounding
environment will break. Or, even simpler, I'll hit a filename with spaces...

This issue arising in different places of cygwin (originally I got nailed by
it when trying to run diff across my now-network profile folder). cygpath is
just a closest example I could reach for this message.


-- 
WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 21.06.2011, <9:21>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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