LA Walsh wrote:
In the old DOS days yes, but in Win32 there is only one current directory. The illusion of having a current directory per drive and an active drive is maintained in cmd.exe (or is it in the MS C runtime?). As cygwin doesn't use it, i:foobar and i:/foobar is always the same.Cygwin, and possibly, the Win32 module, are inconsistent in handling the differences between i:/foobar/ and i:. On one hand i: is considered a 'volume' but on the other hand i:/ seems to evaluate to the same, incorrect, value. In "Win32", each 'fs' of form "<x>:', x of class <[:alpha:]>, there is a process-specific "current directory". This can be seen by:
<deleted long list of tests that demostrate this/>
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