How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

[Lev Bishop]

On 5/23/07, Lev Bishop <lev.bishop@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > 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

Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and
why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the
user to specify an additional flag.

Lev

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