Relative vs. Absolute path problem

[Patrick Herbst]

from your home directory ../../../ = one level up from the cygwin root.

for example... if home is c:\cygwin\home\user then that relative path
would put you at c:\

the root (/) for cygwin is actually the cygwin directory (c:\cygwin)

if you're trying to get just on your c:\ you have to specify it as /cygdrive/c/

> I have an application that takes a filename parameter. The application
> uses the 'fopen' command to open the filename and process the file
> (very simple really). The problem is that when I type the filename as
> an absolute path, the file cannot be read, but when it is typed as a
> relative path, it works fine. For example,
>
>
> This works perfectly (from a directory in my home directory):
> $ ./x264.exe -o out.h264 ../../../testseq/yuv420/COASTGUARD-YUV420-CIF 352x288
>
>
> Whilst this does not:
> ./x264.exe -o out.264 /testseq/yuv420/COASTGUARD-YUV420-CIF 352x288
>
> The obvious problem would be that the two paths are not equal, but I
> can assure you that this is not the case -they both point to the same
> file. The only difference is that one path is relative and the other
> is absolute. The permissions are set so all users can read the file.

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