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 Message-ID: <00b601c23ae5$209913e0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Robert Collins" , Cc: References: <3D4B5AEF.32421.3651B0CF@localhost> <1028370295.8690.117.camel@lifelesswks> Subject: Re: Pathname context Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:41:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Robert Collins wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 19:24, Doug Wyatt wrote: >> >> Yesterday morning I posted a query about 'ls' seeing /usr/lib as a >> proper Cygwin directory using one pathname and as a DOS/Windows >> directory (absent the mounted /lib contents) with what I thought was >> an equivalent pathname. Perhaps it was overlooked in all the P.D. >> hoopla. > > The behaviour is expected based on your mount table. I can see why this _is_ happening, but is this: max@POMELLO [~] $ cygpath -wa c:/cygwin/usr/lib C:\cygwin\lib actually what _should_ happen? Shouldn't a DOS-style path be taken as-is? I can understand the /usr/bin -> /bin, /usr/lib -> /lib mappings, and have even added my own /usr/sbin -> /sbin, but, to me, a DOS-style path should taken literally. Max. -- 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/