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Changes in path handling in Cygwin-1.1.1
- To: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Changes in path handling in Cygwin-1.1.1
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
FYI:
The following information may or may not cause you problems:
Prior to cygwin-1.1.1 a path beginning with a \ was treated the same as a path
beginning with a /. As of cygwin-1.1.1 paths beginning with \ are now
considered absolute windows paths while paths beginning with / are considered
absolute cygwin paths. Also, a path containing but not starting with a \ will
be considered a relative windows path. I have no idea what happens yet if
there is a mix.
This means that if you have cygwin installed in d:\Cygwin-1.1 ( this is the /
mount point ) and you have a d:\tmp directory as well as a d:\Cygwin-1.1\tmp
directory and you reference /tmp you are actually referencing
d:\Cygwin-1.1\tmp. If you reference \\tmp then you're actually referencing
d:\tmp.
Also, if you `mount -b H:\ /home' and you have a directory H:\tmp, and you cd
to /home then the reference to \\tmp will be to H:\tmp not d:\tmp.
Other developers please comment if I've said anything incorrectly.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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