Re: cygpath unable to translate the *nix path to an NTFS junction point

[Barry Kelly <bkelly dot ie at gmail dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jan 17 14:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > ...we won't take patches which add arbitrary options to the CYGWIN
> > variable which could also be solved in other ways.  In this special
> > case, only the conversion from POSIX to Win32 paths is affected.
> > This conversion is only supported by the cygwin_conv_path function
> > and, subsequently, the cygpath utility.  Therefore, such a change
> > should be restricted to this API.  I'll have a look into adding
> > something along these lines.
> 
> Try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> It contains a patch which should help in most cases.

It works in many places, but not always.

In particular, the path ".." when the current ($PWD) directory is a
junction is interpreted along the lines as a symlink: to the parent of
the target. I do enough file operations between parent and child, where
the child is a junction, that I'll stick with my own patch.

Another inconsistency in it is shown in this dialog:

~/incoming/dl$ pwd
/home/barrkel/incoming/dl
~/incoming/dl$ cygpath -aw .
M:\mathom\_c_Documents and Settings_barrkel_Downloads
~/incoming/dl$ cygpath -aw $PWD
C:\cygwin\home\barrkel\incoming\dl
~/incoming/dl$ cygpath -aw $PWD/.
M:\mathom\_c_Documents and Settings_barrkel_Downloads
~/incoming/dl$ cygpath -aw $PWD/..
C:\cygwin\home\barrkel\incoming

$PWD/. is at odds with $PWD and $PWD/..

-- Barry

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