bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 4 21:39:00 GMT 2007


On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Pavel Kudrna wrote:
>Do you mean that the variables are present but hidden in that case?

It depends on what you mean by hidden.  Cygwin is a windows application
so obviously it can get to them as could any other windows application
which tried hard enough.  Cygwin just doesn't bother trying to interpret
them.

I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally
intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even
possible to do this cleanly given the way the environment variable/path
conversion handling works.

cgf

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