From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin convert environment paths
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 22:18:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247338964.20200512221812@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAXzdLX9-nhXdUV8s2XoHAjOaL=KQyGV7v473uU+MudD620PtA@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings, Steven Penny!
> I see here:
> <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html>
> That Cygwin does convert some environment variables, from Windows format to
> Unix format. For example HOME and TMP. But for me at least, are some important
> omissions.
> I use APPDATA and PROGRAMFILES a good amount, and those arent converted. To make
> it worse, HOMEDRIVE and SYSTEMDRIVE arent converted either, meaning you cant
> manually construct the path starting with a variable. This causes some
> problems. Take this example:
These are not making any sense for Cygwin itself, so they are left alone.
> <?php
> $s_old = realpath('a.txt');
> $s_new = getenv('HOMEDRIVE') . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'a.txt';
> # PHP Warning: symlink(): No such file or directory
> symlink($s_old, $s_new);
Use native php ?…
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 22:17:30
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-12 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-10 12:42 Steven Penny
2020-05-10 15:06 ` Achim Gratz
2020-05-10 17:52 ` Doug Henderson
2020-05-12 19:18 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2020-05-10 15:48 Steven Penny
2020-05-10 16:41 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-05-10 19:05 ` Achim Gratz
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