On 8/31/2018 4:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 30 21:37, Steven Penny wrote: >> It is my understanding that given relative input, "cygpath" shall produce >> relative output unless given "-a" option. However I noticed a discrepancy. >> These >> are all correct: >> >> $ cygpath . >> . >> >> $ cygpath .. >> .. >> >> $ cygpath -w . >> . >> >> This is not: >> >> $ cygpath -w .. >> C:\cygwin64\home\ > > Long-standing behaviour. ".." in Cygwin and ".." in Windows can totally > disagree. The path is always convert to absolute at this point in favor > of correct output. There's also the additional restriction (though > not in this case) that relative Windows paths must not be longer than > MAX_PATH (260) chars. > > I'm certainly open to patches to the underlying cygwin_conv_path > function to change the Windows path to relative if possible.
Don't forget the possibility that '..' points to a symlink which Windows will not understand. $ mkdir -p /foo/baz $ ln -s /foo /bar $ cd /bar/baz $ cygpath -w .. -- cyg Simple -- 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
