cygpath -m behaviour change

David Griffiths david.griffiths@gmail.com
Fri Sep 13 17:14:00 GMT 2013


I reinstalled cygwin after a disk failure recently and one of my
scripts stopped working. The problem can be easily reproduced by
entering:

    $ cygpath -m boo/..
    cygpath: error converting "boo/.." - No such file or directory

this is with version 1.7.24(0.269/5/3). On another machine with 1.7.17
installed, the same command results in "./".

I can workaround by using backslashes instead of forward slashes but
other people might find their scripts broken as well.

Cheers,

Dave

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple



More information about the Cygwin mailing list