Mixing / and \ path separators

[Ross Smith]

> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> 
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:51:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:46:13AM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
> >>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com]
> >>> 
> >>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0100, Anton Ertl wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >If so, how should I deal with path names where parts of 
> the path come
> >>> >from ordinary windows users?
> >>> 
> >>> Either tell your Windows users to use forward slashes, 
> tell them to
> >>> specify the path name using windows specs like f:\cygwin\foo\bar,
> >>> or change the backslashes to slashes.
> >>
> >>Wouldn't cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() and its relatives be a more
> >>general solution?
> >
> >Good point.  It probably is, if that option is available.
> 
> I'm sorry.  No.  Let me take that back.
> 
> I think what is being done is that someone is typing /usr\local/bin.
> cygwin_conv_to_posix_path is not the right solution here.  That would
> end up creating something like /cygdrive/c/usr/local/bin which is
> probably not what's intended.

I should have been more explicit -- I meant applying it to the
user-supplied possibly-Windows-style part of the path _before_ merging
it with the program-supplied rest of the path to make an absolute path.

-- 
Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand

        "It's never too soon to start planning, and, in fact,
                it's usually too late." -- Chad Orzel

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