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Re: problem with handle_to_fn ?


On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 11:26:47AM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>With the recent changes in grabbing the path of a file from its open file
>handle I'm seeing the following:
>Initially the path is as follows:
>\Device\HarddiskDmVolumes\PhysicalDmVolumes\BlockVolume1\......
>but later it gets translated to:
>/cygdrive/c/Device/HarddiskDmVolumes/PhysicalDmVolumes/BlockVolume1/...
>which then gets translated back to:
>c:\Device\HarddiskDmVolumes\PhysicalDmVolumes\BlockVolume1\....
>which AFAIK is an invalid path...

Even if this function fails, the net result should be no different than
what cygwin used to do.  It always used an invalid path in that scenario.

Are you actually seeing failures related to this?

cgf

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