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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygpath -u converts quoted UNC paths to local
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zrvm2sw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <209675900.20190403192000@yandex.ru> (Andrey Repin's message of	"Wed, 3 Apr 2019 19:20:00 +0300")

Andrey Repin writes:
> This can be considered "working by design", but it really imposes some serious
> restrictions on interoperability with Cygwin, that I think can be avoided.

But cygpath never sees the quotes, so whatever is done to the path that
it gets is actually the work of your shell.  In other words, you need to
shell-quote the backslashes as appropriate for your shell.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-03 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-03 16:20 Andrey Repin
2019-04-03 16:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-04  7:50   ` Andrey Repin
2019-04-03 17:11 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2019-04-03 17:42   ` EXT: " Garber, Dave (BHGE, Non-GE)
2019-04-03 17:49 ` Chris Wagner

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