Unexpected behavior from cygpath command
Alfred von Campe
alfred@von-campe.com
Wed Nov 13 23:29:00 GMT 2019
On Nov 13, 2019, at 2:08, Frank Redeker wrote:
> I think on both systems the handling of 8.3 names is configured
> differently. You can check this with the Window command fsutil. (This
> command requires elevated permissions)
>
> I get the following output on my system.
>
> C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil 8dot3name query d:
> The volume state is: 0 (8dot3 name creation is enabled).
> The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default).
Thanks, I think this is very interesting, I did not know that such a setting existed. It was indeed disabled for my E: drive. However, after enabling it I still can’t get “cygpath -d" to work as expected. This setting also doesn’t explain why cygpath returns the correct DOS path when I pass it in a Unix style path instead of a Windows style path.
Alfred
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