'cygpath -ml <posix_8.3_path>' bug?

[Randall R Schulz]

At 17:59 2003-03-19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:42:07PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >Lee,
> >
> >Perhaps. In particular, if one uses Windows mode (instead of mixed
> >mode) you get the result I think you were expecting (except, of course,
> >for the orientation of the name separators).
>
>Well, since POSIX doesn't have anything like "long file names" I think
>you could say this isn't really a bug.  The -l is a no-op in this case.
>
>Or one could always submit a patch...
>
>cgf


Chris,

The ostensibly failing mode is conversion _to_ a Windows format, not to 
POSIX format.

You know, it just occurred to me that if I submitted half as many 
patches to open source projects as I put onto my bike's tires, I'd be a hero.

Randall Schulz 


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