On Dec 6 13:23, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > was it considered to add a flag to cygpath to output a path in unc format?
No. But it wouldn't be much work. > > > For example, the folder > > C:\test. > > cannot be accessed from many Windows applications (powershell and cmd > included) because of the trailing dot, while cygwin has no issue creating, > accessing and deleting such files/folders. > > Using an unc path > > \\?\C:\test. > > solves the issue for some programs, but cygpath currently misses an option > for creating such path. As a workaround you can just prepend the long path prefix: echo -n '\\?\'; cygpath ... > Notice that creating a dos path leads to an error. I don't understand. Creating which DOS path with which application? Corinna -- 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
