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From: Jan Nijtmans <jan.nijtmans@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin_conv_path sometimes removes trailing slash
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO1jNwv+Lza40TnN+woA_R1HpsnEZZvYda2f8A49NE+xvKUCGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56AC2C35.9060903@cornell.edu>

2016-01-30 4:21 GMT+01:00 Ken Brown:
> I'm using cygwin_conv_path to convert Win32 paths to POSIX paths, and I'm
> puzzled by the conversion
>
>   d:/ --> /cygdrive/d
>
> without the trailing slash.  By contrast, we have
>
>   d:/foo/ --> /cygdrive/d/foo/

This came up before:
   <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00048.html>
I had to workaround it in tkimg.

It's easy to workaround in your program, but - indeed -
that shouldn't be necessary. I too would expect that
when the input contains a slash, the output should too.

Regards,
     Jan Nijtmans

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-31 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-30 20:46 Ken Brown
2016-01-31 22:25 ` Jan Nijtmans [this message]
2016-02-01 10:29   ` Henri
2016-02-01 10:38     ` Henri
2016-02-01 10:45     ` Ray Donnelly
2016-02-01 10:59       ` Henri
     [not found]   ` <CAOYw7ds-N=f+JCn-2rtFqOyahmA_M9mVNwv1CZH6__M-K7ht1A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-02-08 18:13     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-11 16:50       ` Ray Donnelly
2016-02-14 19:08 ` Ken Brown
2016-02-15 15:26   ` Corinna Vinschen

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