get cygpath to leave relative paths as relative?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 10 22:34, Brent wrote:
> If I execute
>     mypath=`cygpath -w ../`
>     echo $mypath
> 
> I get
>     d:\unix\nextVersion\script
> 
> OK, d:\unix\nextVersion\script is the correct windows version of the path, but it is in absolute form. I would prefer it if cygpath left it in relative form, i.e.
>     echo $mypath
> should output
>     ..\

This is not always possible when converting POSIX paths to Win32 paths
for a couple of reasons.  One reason is that a relative path might
contain symlinks, another one is that a path containing .. could cross
mount points.  To recognize both cases extra processing is necessary
which might convert the path to an absolute form.


Corinna

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