How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

[Lev Bishop]

On 5/23/07, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On May 21 18:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On May 21 11:55, Lev Bishop wrote:
> > > On 5/21/07, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > > >Actually it seems to be better to disallow only combinations which
> > > >explicitely don't make sense, but to allow any combination which make
> > > >*some* sort of sense.  The rules would be, afaics
> > > >
> > > >- Don't allow -d with -l.
> > > >- Allow any other mix of -d, -l, -m and -w.
> > > >- Don't allow -u with any of the above flags.
> > > >
> > > >Did I miss one?
> > >
> > > What about -s?
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00525.html
> >
> > > As i hinted in my previous message, the flags handling in cygpath is
> > > inconsistent.
> > > [...]
> >
> > Right, I noticed most of your observations when looking into the source
> > code.  I'm going to rewrite the option handling to be consistent.
> > Sorta.  Most of the time at least.  Stay tuned.
>
> Done.   The rules have changed slightly, but should be consistent now.
> The option handling when reading from files (-o -f ...) is now identical
> to the option handling from the the command line, except that the -o and
> -f options are invalid when reading from a file.

Now, one can't do, eg,  "cygpath -w -S" to get the system directory in
windows format (or even "cygpath -u -S" to explicitly ask for it in
unix form. Previously these worked. Is that intentional?

"cygpath -f" seems to ignore commandline options, eg to convert to
windows format:
$ cygpath -w -f - <<< /usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/bash

"cygpath -of" seems to default to windows format rather than unix
format, except for "system directory" options:

 $ /bin/echo -e "/usr/bin/bash\n-P" | cygpath -of -
C:\cygwin\bin\bash
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Lev/Start Menu/Programs

Lev

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