Re: 1.7.0-19: Still unexplained path problems

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

On Jul 22 09:25, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > Can you create an strace of a testcase (building git or something)
> > which shows where and how the paths are generated?  Maybe we can
> > workaround this in Cygwin itself by tweaking paths missing a / or \
> > after the colon...
> 
> Here's a testcase:
> 
> $ cat >tc.c <<EOF
> #include <windows.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main()
> {
>   char buf[512];
>   
>   GetModuleFileName (NULL, buf, sizeof (buf));
>   puts (buf);
>   return 0;
> }
> EOF
> 
> $ gcc -mno-cygwin tc.c
> 
> $ ./a
> \\?\C:\cygwin\home\brian\testcases\native-argv0\a.exe

Thanks for the testcase.  I was looking into the path conversion code
but it works as expected.  It didn't occur to me that the problem might
be related to using the long path name syntax when creating processes
with CreateProcessW.  Since GetModuleFileName just returns the path
litarally as it has been specified in CreateProcess, native applications
relying on the content (and not being wide path capable) have a good
chance to fail.  I applied a patch to Cygwin which avoid this.  tclsh
and insight both work fine for me now.


Corinna

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