Dave Korn wrote on Monday, July 02, 2007 7:21 PM: > On 02 July 2007 18:17, Pavel Kudrna wrote: > >> Hi, >> the legal win32 paths containing period like "c:.\" or "c:." are >> incorrectly converted by cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() to "c:./" and >> "c:." respectively. See last two output lines of the attached >> example program. >> Pavel Kudrna > >> c:.\ c:./ >> c:. c:. > > They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to > POSIX, which has no notion of a per-drive current directory.
Additionally it is no problem to create a directory named "c:." on a non-Windows-kernel-based POSIX system, so those paths are technically correct ;-) - Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
