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RE: Patch for path.cc
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Patch for path.cc
- From: David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:43:03 -0400
Chris Faylor [cgf@cygnus.com] writes:
> We have flushed out a few cases where there was incorrect path
manipulation
> with the recent change to cygwin. There is no way that a UNIX program
should
> be mixing '\' and '/' but it does happen in tcl and in some places in
libiberty.
>
> This is usually an indication of something being broken that is being
masked
> by cygwin and I am sure that these kinds of things are responsible for the
> occasional random reports that we see from people who are unable to open
files.
Yeah, you know - the more I think about it, my encounters with mixed paths
tend to be when interacting with non-Cygwin tools, in which case even though
the path is mixed, it's coming from an environment that is expecting it to
be treated as a native Windows path, so you're probably right that the
current check would stil be the most accurate.
-- David
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