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Re: strange behavior of cygpath
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Kenji Yamashita <yamashita_kenji1972 at yahoo dot co dot jp>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:35:01 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: strange behavior of cygpath
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Kenji Yamashita wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found that the behavior of cygpath was strange.
>
> kenji@ibm[88] cygcheck -c cygwin
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package Version
> cygwin 1.3.18-1
>
> Use -h to see help about each section
> kenji@ibm[89] cygpath -pw 'c:\'
> c;c:\
>
> In cygwin-1.3.14-1, the behavior of cygpath is the following.
>
> kenji@ibm[93] tar jxf cygwin-1.3.14-1.tar.bz2 usr/bin/cygpath.exe
> kenji@ibm[94] usr/bin/cygpath.exe -pw 'c:\'
> c:\
>
> Since cygwin-1.3.15-2, the behavior of cygpath has changed.
>
> kenji@ibm[95] tar jxf cygwin-1.3.15-2.tar.bz2 usr/bin/cygpath.exe
> kenji@ibm[96] usr/bin/cygpath.exe -pw 'c:\'
> c;c:\
>
> In the announcement of cygwin-1.3.15-1,
> - Fix for "cygpath -w -l returning garbage".
> (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00749.html )
> (Christopher Faylor)
>
> Is it related with? and the above is the specification of cygpath?
>
> Regards,
> Kenji Yamashita
Kenji,
Let me make sure I understand what you're trying to do:
You're trying to translate a *Windows* path to a Windows path using
cygpath?
The '-p' flag tells cygpath that the path it's translating is in the form
of Unix $PATH (i.e., directories/files separated by *colons*). Thus, it's
trying to translate the 2 component Unix path, 'c' followed by '\', into a
Windows %PATH%-style list (directories/files separated by semicolons).
This is correct behavior, and exactly what you're seeing in 1.3.15. Any
other output is erroneous, and should be treated as such. 1.3.14 cygpath
apparently had a bug. It's quite possible that the change you mentioned
had the additional benefit of fixing this bug.
Igor
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