Re: cygwin_conv_path strange behavior

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Jan Nijtmans wrote:
>
> Now, copy cygwin1.dll to the same directory
> as mypath.exe, and do the same
> from a cygwin shell, it prints:
>    $ ./mypath
>    win32 path: C:\some\path\foo\mypath.exe
>    posix path: /cygdrive/c/some/path/foo/mypath.exe
> From a win32 command shell:
>    > .\mypath
>    win32 path: C:\some\path\foo\mypath.exe
>    posix path: /foo/mypath.exe
>

This sounds it is as expected.  You copied only cygwin1.dll so the
shell you started had a cygwin1.dll in another directory so that / is
mapped to the parent directory containing the cygwin1.dll the shell is
using.  However, when you use the win32 command shell there is no
previous mapping of / to the parent directory containing cygwin1.dll
so / is mapped to c:/some/path and the function correctly reports
/foo/mypath.exe.

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