bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 07/03/2007, Pavel Kudrna wrote:
> >
> >
> >     * /From/: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
> >
> >   They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to POSIX, 
> which
> > has no notion of a per-drive current directory.
> >   
> Ok, but Cygwin != POSIX :-)
> Cygwin application has environment variable for each drive letter to
> remember current drive. See example and run it from cmd.exe.


And current drive != current directory on that drive.

FWIW, the environment variables you speak of come from Windows.  Cygwin
doesn't use them.



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