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Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?


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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