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 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:52:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: mrs@windriver.com Subject: Re: 1.1.8: bug in \\ handling in absolute fns Message-ID: <20010515225242.A11643@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, mrs@windriver.com References: <200105160243.TAA19572@kankakee.wrs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <200105160243.TAA19572@kankakee.wrs.com>; from mrs@windriver.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:43:21PM -0700 On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:43:21PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: >> Our customers requested that backslashes in filenames be treated as >> native MS-DOS paths and so that change was incorporated into cygwin last >> year. So, I'm not surprised that a hybrid usage like /a\b would fail. >> That would be translated to x:\a\b on the current drive. > >Ok, thanks. I will beat on the libiberty people to fix this problem. >They will resist. I believe that DJ Delorie is the libiberty maintainer. If you let DJ know which function it is that is doing this, I'm sure that he'll look into it. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple