Changes in path handling in Cygwin-1.1.1
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Wed May 24 14:43:00 GMT 2000
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>The following information may or may not cause you problems:
>
>Prior to cygwin-1.1.1 a path beginning with a \ was treated the same as
>a path beginning with a /. As of cygwin-1.1.1 paths beginning with \
>are now considered absolute windows paths while paths beginning with /
>are considered absolute cygwin paths. Also, a path containing but not
>starting with a \ will be considered a relative windows path. I have
>no idea what happens yet if there is a mix.
If the path has a backslash it is considered a Windows path.
cgf
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