Cygwin path conversion routines

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri May 10 14:33:00 GMT 2013


On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 07:56:26PM +0000, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>It'd be great to have http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-path.html
>also document what happens if a path passed for conversion does already look
>good.  E.g. what Win-2-Posix conversion does with things like
>"/cygdrive/c/cygwin" or just "/bin", and what is case-sensitivity
>of the conversion routines...  (E.g. "/cygdrive/C" and "/cygdrive/c"
>appear to work equally well, but not "/Cygdrive/c".)
>
>I know one can experiment to see the results, but the documented
>behavior saves from guessing all the possible cases.

This is a free software project:

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cgf

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