Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39EB3886.BEF46C5@veritas.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:19:02 -0700 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com CC: Cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: Treatment of x:path again References: <20001016115319.C11579@cygnus.com> <004201c0378b$da8b7bd0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> <20001016122203.A12024@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Why do this in Cygwin, to begin with? Cygwin is a unix/linux world working under windows. If I want the windows way of doing things, I just need to open a command window. I would prefer to not have to worry about "drive relative current working directory" when running in Cygwin. Chris Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:12:17PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > > >> > >> How would you suggest having something be 'relative to the current path' > >> in cygwin, given the /cygdrive method of doing things? cygwin has never > >> kept track of the current directory of other drives. > >> > > > >Searching MSDN gives: > > > >Routine Use > >_chdir, _wchdir Change current working directory > >_chdrive Change current drive > >_getcwd, _wgetcwd Get current working directory for default drive > >_getdcwd, _wgetdcwd Get current working directory for specified drive > >_getdrive Get current (default) drive > >_mkdir, _wmkdir Make new directory > >_rmdir, _wrmdir Remove directory > >_searchenv, _wsearchenv Search for given file on specified paths > > >_getdcwd looks promising. It is part of msvcrt.dll; and is included in Cygwin > >export lib: > > >mw1g017@MW1G17C% nm /usr/lib/libmsvcrt.a | grep getdcwd > >00000000 I __imp___wgetdcwd > >00000000 T __wgetdcwd > >00000000 T __getdcwd > >00000000 I __imp___getdcwd > > You can't mix cygwin with msvcrt. > > >> If you'd like to submit a patch to somehow accomplish this, I'd be happy > >> to apply it. > >> > > > >I may. Is module winsup still enough to build cygwin1.dll? > > In theory. > > cgf > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com