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From: Roger Qiu <roger.qiu@polycademy.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: cygpath -w converts relative paths to absolute windows paths
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 03:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10eb657d-a00b-1609-a9b9-6373092c1ac1@polyhack.io> (raw)

Hi,

I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an absolute 
windows path.

I thought this would only happen if you provide the `--absolute` flag, 
or when the path is a special cygwin path.

But this occurs just for normal directories.

I have come across a situation where I need to convert ntfs symlinks to 
unix symlinks and back. Sometimes these symlinks have relative paths 
them. Now by using cygpath --windows, I get back absolute paths, which 
means the integrity of the symlink isn't preserved.

Can `cygpath --windows '../directory'` give back `..\directory` for 
paths aren't special cygwin paths? These relative backslashes are 
supported in Windows right now.

Thanks,

Roger

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-07  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-07  3:36 Roger Qiu [this message]
2017-02-07 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-07 23:13   ` cyg Simple
2017-02-07 23:34   ` Thomas Wolff
2017-02-08  1:00     ` Brian Inglis
2017-02-08 11:06     ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-08 22:42       ` Thomas Wolff
2017-02-11 21:27         ` cyg Simple
2017-02-09  1:17   ` Roger Qiu
2017-02-12 11:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-02-12 17:39   ` Thomas Wolff
2017-02-13 15:16     ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-02-13 19:34       ` Thomas Wolff

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