Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:35:38 -0800 From: "Ryan T. Sammartino" To: David Rothenberger Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.6-3 and xemacs Message-ID: <20011206203538.GA28805@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Ryan T. Sammartino" , David Rothenberger , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20011206154936.GA22573@redhat.com> <20011206175147.GB28243@localhost> <3C0FCB23.2EDCC0B0@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C0FCB23.2EDCC0B0@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: http://members.shaw.ca/ryants On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:46:43AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > I've done a little debugging and here's what I've found out. > > It appears to be a problem/change to the behavior of > cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list(). When this function is called with a > path of the form "/cygdrive/z/something", it returns an empty string > unless the drive "z" actually exists. This seems incorrect to me, since > this function always returns a valid Windows path for other POSIX paths, > even if the file or directory doesn't actually exist. > > Even more troubling, the function appears to return garbage when called > with "/cygdrive/z" or "/cygdrive/z/", unless "z" is a valid drive. > I dunno if that is related to the problem I'm having. I'm trying to open a file like ~/project/foo, and ~/project is a symlink to /cygdrive/d/project, and drive D certainly exists for me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/