Re: [PATCH] normalize_posix_path and c:/foo/bar

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 16 00:23, Brian Dessent wrote:
> There's a small buglet in normalize_posix_path in that it doesn't see
> c:/foo/bar type paths as being win32 and so it treats them as a relative
> path and prepends cwd.

Actually that was intended, but unfortunately the current path handling
deliberately creates DOS paths with slashes (in find_exec) right now,
so that doesn't work ATM.

> that exposed this was insight failing to load because some of the tcl
> parts use win32 paths, but really a reduced testcase is simply
> open("c:/cygwin/bin/ls.exe", O_RDONLY) = ENOENT.

Yeah, I *wished* that c:foo and c:/foo are treated as relative posix
paths, and the above open is just not doing the right thing, but...
see above.  I fixed that already in CVS two days ago:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2008-q1/msg00121.html


Thanks anyway,
Corinna

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