> For the specific case C:\Temp, I found this: > > cygpath -ua 'C:\Temp' > > -> /cygdrive/c/Temp > > cygpath -ua /cygdrive/c/Temp > > -> /cygdrive/c/Temp > > cygpath -ua '\Temp' > > -> /cygdrive/c/Temp > > cygpath -ua '/Temp' > > -> /Temp > > Now Cygwin is open source, so you, too, could grab the code in cygpath and > call it as a subroutine, maybe, to try to canonicalize a wider range of > paths.
Yeah, thanx for the tip, but this functionality won't be available on other *nix-platforms, so some kind of #ifdef is required > Note the interesting difference between the \Temp and /Temp cases. > cygpath is processing \Temp as a Windows-like thing, and thus interpreting > it according the the Windows root for the current drive. However, it > processes /Temp and a Posix-like path, which will be in term of the > _Cygwin_ root, generally the CYgwin install directory. > > Still, if you did this canonicalization first, maybe you would get more > what you're looking for? I'm not sure it would be a good idea to insert > this generally into the Cygwin library stack. Others more familiar with > the fine details can probably elaborate why. I experimented by fiddling around with making the path canonical and as you say, maybe we will be more successful and that could still be a part of our code that is not platform dependant I guess we need to go out of std::filesystem::canonical though because that is what fails (and unfortunately I guess there's a real bug in the (real) g++ distro of <filesystem> because the std::filesystem::path::generic-functions doesn't work as the standard mandates either) Once again, thanx for the tips Best regards, Kristian > Regards - Eliot Moss > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
