Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:35:50PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > I'm quite sure this is not a good solution. It's just waiting to fail
> > in another place. The Unix code just isn't prepared for backslashes in
> > a file name to be path separators, they are seen as escaping the special
> > meaning of characters.
> >
> > Why not add something at the start of main() to change backslashes to
> > forward slashes? Or better: Isn't there a cygwin trick for this
> > already?
>
> Sure:
>
> #include <sys/cygwin.h>
>
> cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(const char *win_path, char *posix_path);
That sounds like something we can use. But lacking the manual page it's
a bit difficult to know exactly how to call it. Also, can this function
be used when the path is already a "posix" path? Or do we need a test
whether this function needs to be called (a backslash being present).
Actually, it would help a lot if someone with Cygwin installed can look
into this and test a few things.
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