Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 18:00:27 +0300 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Christopher Murray Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: [ID 20020506.009] File::Spec::Unix::canonpath under cygwin Message-ID: <20020507180027.J12565@alpha.hut.fi> References: <112356158649.20020506170556@familiehaase.de> <112356158649.20020506170556@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mchase@ix.netcom.com on Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:58:48PM -0700 On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:58:48PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: > A recent exchange of email in cygwin@cygwin.com (below) indicated that > File::Spec::Unix::canonpath() has changed for Perl 5.7.3. Part of the > change removes a Cygwin specific hack that prevented canonpath() from > combining runs of "/" into a single "/". There was a note at that point in > the code wondering why Cygwin wanted that different processing. > > The reason is the same as what caused the $node code to be added. Cygwin > permits network path specifications that start with "//" and without the > hack, canonpath() was removing the leading "/". > > Rather than putting the original Cygwin hack back in, it would be better to > add Cygwin to the list of systems that the new code applies to. > > If this diff get's mangled, I can send it to whoever wants it as an > attachment. I do not subscribe to the Perl developers' list, so please > reply directly if you need to contact me. Thanks, applied, will be in Perl 5.8.0. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen -- 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/