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According to Eric Blake on 8/26/2005 6:17 AM:
> I also noticed that realpath("c:..", buf) now returns "c:", rather than
> "/cygdrive" - I guess it comes down to the choice of whether cygwin has 2
> roots or 28 roots. I prefer 2 roots (so that the parent directory of any
> drive letter is the cygdrive prefix), but maybe I can be convinced that 28
> is okay. But whatever the choice is, it should be consistent - right now
> realpath("c:/..", buf) is failing with ENOENT, even though it should have
> the same result as realpath("c:..", buf).
Replying to myself, if cygwin is ever changed so that it tracks 27 current
working directories the way Windows does (using the !C: environment
variable and friends), then c:.. and c:/.. would have to have different
semantics. But currently cygwin is documented as implicitly inserting a
path separator after a drive letter, so that all pathnames from a drive
letter start at the root of the drive.
Also, another argument for cygwin to only have 2 roots instead of 28 is
that realpath() is then consistent with getcwd(), and that way, ALL
fully-resolved absolute paths start with '/'. In other words, since
chdir("c:");getcwd(buf, PATH_MAX) returns /cygdrive/c, so should
realpath("c:", buf).
As to your comment in path.cc about realpath(path, NULL) malloc'ing its
result being weird, it is consistent with getcwd(NULL, 0) malloc'ing its
result, and it is quite useful.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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