Mixing / and \ path separators

[Anton Ertl]

Cygwin 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) handles filenames like

/usr/local/share/gforth/0.5.9-20030201\kernl32l.fi

all right, where the "\" is meant as a path separator.  Cygwin
1.3.19(0.71/3/2) and 1.3.20 reportedly do not like such names (file
not found).  Is this intentional and will it stay that way?  If so,
how should I deal with path names where parts of the path come from
ordinary windows users?

Background: We use Cygwin for the Windows port of Gforth
(http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/).  The Windows port
currently produces mixes like the above by default, and we could
change that; but I am worried about paths coming from the users (e.g.,
through the GFORTHPATH environment variable), which may use either
way.

- anton


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/