On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:41:35 PM EST, Brian Inglis <brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > Sorry, it's been a few years now - there were a few issues testing various > paths > using various directories and links that neither readlink nor > realpath resolved > absolutely and correctly, so I added the cygpath to and fro to give a > consistent > path to support ordering and duplicate checking.
I haven't run into a scenario yet where 'readlink' doesn't work. But I also don't intermix Windows with my Cygwin except in rare occasion. What IS absolutely NUTS is Cygwin's treatment of spaces in PATH elements - it magically escapes them but refuses to recognize escaped spaces; considers them invalid. All other environment variables spaces have to be treated properly. Cygpath also blows up spectacularly when you feed '-w/-m' anything that isn't a syntactically perfect unix-style (colon delimited) character string. -- 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
