Re: [1.7] cygpath broken?

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

On Apr 14 23:20, Greg Couch wrote:
> I'm seeing some really weird behavior with cygpath in cygwin 1.7 on Vista 
> Home Premium.  For instance, if I'm in my home directory and there's an  
> image.png file in it:
>
> 	$ ls -l image.png
> 	-rwxrwxrwx 1 gregc None 6211 Apr  5 16:00 image.png
> 	$ cygpath -u image.png
> 	image.png
> 	$ cygpath -ua image.png
> 	/home/gregc/image.png
> 	$ cygpath -m image.png
>
> 	$ cygpath -ma image.png
> 	C:/cygwin/home/gregc/image.png
> 	$ cygpath -w image.png
>
> 	$ cygpath -wa image.png
> 	C:\cygwin\home\gregc\image.png
>
> So cygpath -m and -w are returning empty lines.  Is anyone else seeing
> this behavior?

Yes, getting relative windows paths is definitely broken.  I'm surprised
that this hasn't been found earlier.  I'll look into a patch.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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