On Dec 15 20:25, Eric Blake wrote: > Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > > > Or, more accurately, a limitation of the coreutils .exe magic getting > > thrown off by the switch to the new cygwin_conv_path. > > On further thought, chmod doesn't do .exe magic to begin with (cp, mv, and ln > do, but not chmod). Maybe the culprit is the fact that coreutils uses > fchmodat > rather than chmod?
Probably. One core test in the *at functions is the check for an absolute path using something along the lines of `if (*path == '/' || *path == '\\'). I never tested the *at functions with DOS paths. I mean, who uses DOS paths when there are nice POSIX paths available... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
