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: <000701c31b13$d6731260$c99ac250@leper> Reply-To: From: To: Cc: Subject: cygpath : minor inconsistency in output Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 19:57:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Assuming a conventional setup, then cygpath -m / returns "c:/Cygwin". But if Cygwin is mounted at the root of a drive as in mount "d:" "/" OR mount "d:/" "/" then cygpath -m / returns "d:/". Note the trailing slash. This is a terribly minor inconsistency and can easily be worked around (I need to use the output of cygpath in an application) but (a) am I correct to identify this mismatch in output as inconsistent and (b) would it be a pain with many nasty consequences for loads of people if in some future distribution it was made evident through a trailing slash that the output of cygpath is always a directory? (So, in the particular example outlined, here, you'd get "c:/Cygwin/"). Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/