Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

[Marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 6/23/2011 5:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Marco atzeri!
>
> Cygwin, to my best understanding, is supposed to transparently accept native
> Windows paths.

No, cygwin expects to receive POSIX/Unix paths

$ cygpath -h
[cut]
  -u, --unix            (default) print Unix form of NAMEs 
(/cygdrive/c/winnt)

so cygpath -u
expects to receive a Windows path and convert it in a unix one.

From your example:
cygpath -u \\\\DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile
 /c/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile

the argument is an escaped windows network path
and the outcome is the Unix equivalent

As Corinna explained:
$ echo \\\\DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile
\\DAEMON1\anrdaemon\.profile

By the way resetting "cygdrive" is not a good idea,
it is better to obtain

/cygdrive/c/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile



> --
> WBR,
>   Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 23.06.2011,<18:47>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...

Marco

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