From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: "Wolfgang S. Kechel" <wolfgang.kechel@prs.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Misbehaviour of cygpath -am between versions 3.1.4 and 3.3.2
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:44:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14910218332.20211117194454@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ebc67f4-b82c-b197-c486-f04735f6fcb0@prs.de>
Greetings, Wolfgang S. Kechel!
> The command 'cygpath -am .' yields different results between
> cygwin-3.1.4-1 and cygwin-3.3.2-1 on a Windows 10 box when the current
> directory is a network share.
> Example with V3.1.4:
> cygpath -am . ---> P:/mytool/gbuild/wintel/libtiff
> Example with V3.3.2-1
> cygpath -am . ---> //mynas.mydomain.de/product/mytool/gbuild/wintel/libtiff
I'm pretty sure there was a discussion about it earlier.
> This causes UNC filenames to appear and this cmd.exe is unable to start
> in those directories when started from a cygwin shell or from nmake run
> in a cygwin shell.
cmd.exe can be configured to STFU.
>> $ cd $( cygpath -am . )
>>
>> $ cmd /C DIR .
>> Volume in drive \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon is anrdaemon
>> Volume Serial Number is 3D5A-4F9A
>>
>> Directory of \\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\Documents\_ps1
>>
>> 22.07.2020 10:23 <DIR> .
>> 27.07.2021 19:21 <DIR> ..
>> 28.08.2019 14:25 <DIR> HTML5Video
>> 22.03.2020 00:22 <DIR> Maintenance
>> 22.03.2020 00:23 88 wmi.btm
>> 29.08.2018 18:14 1 871 dl-files.cmd
>> 01.09.2019 18:01 194 ats.sh
>> 3 File(s) 2 153 bytes
>> 4 Dir(s) 361 313 710 080 bytes free
>>
>> $
> I prefer to get the old behaviour back since it worked for 20+ years up
> to now - or at least an option to enable the old behavior again.
The option is in https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-cmd.html (Original article from
web archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150312195558/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/156276
)
> Please note that I have not subscribed to any cygwin mailing list.
Noted…
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 19:36:02
Sorry for my terrible english...
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2021-11-17 14:41 Wolfgang S. Kechel
2021-11-17 16:44 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2021-11-17 18:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
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