From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygpath -w converts relative paths to absolute windows paths
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 23:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eecf1899-0aa3-6344-b88c-e5fe9e01bc90@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <357614277.20170207183005@yandex.ru>
Hi Andrey,
Am 07.02.2017 um 16:30 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, Roger Qiu!
>
>> I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an absolute windows path.
>> ...
> ".." is a special path, that can't be safely converted.
How is the special meaning of ".." so much different in Windows than in
Cygwin/Linux/POSIX that it could not be mapped?
Things like dir .., cd .., type ..\sub\file all work comparably.
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Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-07 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-07 3:36 Roger Qiu
2017-02-07 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-07 23:13 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-07 23:34 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2017-02-08 1:00 ` Brian Inglis
2017-02-08 11:06 ` Andrey Repin
2017-02-08 22:42 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-02-11 21:27 ` cyg Simple
2017-02-09 1:17 ` Roger Qiu
2017-02-12 11:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-02-12 17:39 ` Thomas Wolff
2017-02-13 15:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-02-13 19:34 ` Thomas Wolff
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