Strange cygpath behavior.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 21 09:23, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
> 
> I'm facing an unacceptable cygpath behavior related to the network shares.
> 
> The testcase is:

Here's what happens on my machine:

> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  /cygdrive/c/DAEMON1anrdaemon.profile

> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -m \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  C:/DAEMON1anrdaemon.profile

> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -lm \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile
> //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  C:/DAEMON1anrdaemon.profile

> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -u "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
> /DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  /cygdrive/c/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

> 
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -m "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
> ///DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  C:/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

> 
> [\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon]$cygpath -lm "\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile"
> ///DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  C:/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

Alternatively:

  $ cygpath -u '\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile'
  //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  $ cygpath -m '\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile'
  //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

  $ cygpath -lm '\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile'
  //DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

> Only unquoted path producing usable results, but it's not realistically
> imaginable I would let it run this way.

There's something weird in your bash settings.  Usually bash will fold the
backslashes before using the string as argument to the child process.  See
the behaviour with echo:

  $ echo \a
  a
  $ echo \\a
  \a
  $ echo "\a"
  \a
  $ echo "\\a"
  \a
  $ echo '\a'
  \a
  $ echo '\\a'
  \\a

So what cygpath gets as argument in your first example is usually

  \DAEMON1anrdaemon.profile

I don't know what the difference in your settings is, though.  Something
with readline, maybe.


Corinna

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