Greetings, Dipak Gaigole! >>>> >>>> So in this situation, is it possible to get the cwd value as >>>> "/cygdrive/c/temp/appdir/bin" using some cygwin API? >>> >>> No, it is generally not possible to get the POSIX path to anything in >>> the cygwin root (/) tree to be prefixed by the /cygdrive prefix. The >>> /cygdrive prefix exists solely to resolve paths that are outside of /, >>> so paths inside that tree don't need the /cygdrive prefix. >>> >> This path is also displayed to the enduser at different places. So our >> requirement is to always get a path in the /cygdrive/ prefix format >> irrespective of whether it is inside the cygwin root (/) or outside of >> /.
> I think this can be achieved by getcwd () + > cygwin_conv_path(CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_A,...) and converting the windows > style path to /cygdrive/ prefix format. No, this is wrong approach. Do not do manual path manipulation, it WILL fail. Always use corrsponding conversion tools provided by Cygwin. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, December 8, 2016 21:44:42 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
