On Feb 18 21:24, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 02/18/2010 12:55 PM, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > >> - if the executed program is compiled with cygwin's gcc the program > >> receives \127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (just one backslash at the begining). > >> - if it's compiled with cl it gets \\127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (double > >> backslash - what I expected) > > '\' is an escape character in C, Unix, and Linux. In Windows, it's a > > path separator. Use '/' instead when working with Cygwin and you'll > > avoid allot of problems. Better yet, use POSIX paths exclusively. > > "\\hostname" is remote path location, I don't think I can use > "//hostname" instead, either for cygwin program and especially not for > not-cygwin program, can I? (can't check it now)
Yes, you can use forward slashes, even in Win32 calls. In Cygwin you *should* use them, otherwise you lose certain functionality. The next version of the Cygwin User's Guide, which will come with Cygwin 1.7.2, adds additional description about this. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
