Re: Mixing / and \ path separators

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:46:13AM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
>>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com]
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Anton Ertl wrote:
>>> >
>>> >If so, how should I deal with path names where parts of the path come
>>> >from ordinary windows users?
>>> 
>>> Either tell your Windows users to use forward slashes, tell them to
>>> specify the path name using windows specs like f:\cygwin\foo\bar,
>>> or change the backslashes to slashes.
>>
>>Wouldn't cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() and its relatives be a more
>>general solution?
>
>Good point.  It probably is, if that option is available.

I'm sorry.  No.  Let me take that back.

I think what is being done is that someone is typing /usr\local/bin.
cygwin_conv_to_posix_path is not the right solution here.  That would
end up creating something like /cygdrive/c/usr/local/bin which is
probably not what's intended.

cgf

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