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Pathnames with backslash
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Pathnames with backslash
- From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer at sanwaint dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:03:33 +0100
There was a change in the behavior of pathnames beginning
with the Apr-13 snapshot. Now, it seems that anything with
a backslash in it is considered a Win32 path:
$ cygpath -w '/cygdrive/c\cygnus'
\cygdrive\c\cygnus
$ cygpath -w '/cygdrive/c/cygnus'
c:\cygnus
Before Apr-13 these produced the same results.
I had been assuming that slash and backslash were interchangeable
in Cygwin. Is this an intentional/desirable change?
Thanks,
Eric Fifer