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Re: cygwin 1.3.6-3 and xemacs
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:46:43AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote:
> I've done a little debugging and here's what I've found out.
>
> It appears to be a problem/change to the behavior of
> cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list(). When this function is called with a
> path of the form "/cygdrive/z/something", it returns an empty string
> unless the drive "z" actually exists. This seems incorrect to me, since
> this function always returns a valid Windows path for other POSIX paths,
> even if the file or directory doesn't actually exist.
>
> Even more troubling, the function appears to return garbage when called
> with "/cygdrive/z" or "/cygdrive/z/", unless "z" is a valid drive.
>
I dunno if that is related to the problem I'm having. I'm trying to
open a file like ~/project/foo, and ~/project is a symlink to
/cygdrive/d/project, and drive D certainly exists for me.
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