From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31843 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2018 06:40:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26008 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2018 06:40:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:589, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 01 Sep 2018 06:40:46 +0000 Received: from vsmx004.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.198]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2D58CE096 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 06:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [87.185.215.3]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DCCAECDF8C for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2018 06:40:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: error in "cygpath" behavior References: <20180831085734.GF6350@calimero.vinschen.de> <5b89c269.1c69fb81.84d1a.6f1b@mx.google.com> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 06:40:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <5b89c269.1c69fb81.84d1a.6f1b@mx.google.com> (Steven Penny's message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:34:17 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <87o9dhd8kd.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Steven Penny writes: > I am not understanding - it appears that "dot-dot" (..) is well defined by > POSIX: [=E2=80=A6] > so it would appears that ".." would be an acceptable return value in any = case. Except that you've asked for a Windows path, not POSIX, and you have no idea what Windows' idea of the CWD is once you start using that string with a Windows application. Regards, Achim. --=20 +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf rackAttack V1.04R1: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple