On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote:
(cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that people that knows ebtter what i'm
talking about can eventually correct me)
jw schultz wrote:
Perhaps that is the document he needs. If not could you
cygwinese, cygwinites, cygwinists, cygwinim or whatever
point him to one that will clear up the slash/backslash
issues that still haven't been addressed. Rsync does not
recognise backslashes as such in exclude patterns. Path
components are expected to be delimited by slashes (/)
only. I expect the cygwin library translates as necessary.
Basically if you want to be sure about what you mean you better never
use \.
I think the actual state is: cygwin's open() tries to do its best to
open also path with \ but most of the times there are 'problems' (that
are, of course, no 'problems' but its meant that way) in the code of the
app. itself that block \ thinking they are shell escapes or anyway
invalid paths... so that only a few application can be really used with
windows paths.
Avoiding them completely is the safest choiche.
Please notice that there is a default prgoramm called cygpath that's
really useful to convert path- and file-names between the two version,
and it's not so hard to create wrapper scripts to convert them, e.g.
(I copied this long ago from I-don't-remember-where):
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH
NEWARGS=
for arg in $@ ;
do
if [ -e ${arg} ]; then
NEWARGS=${NEWARGS} `cygpath -p -w $arg`
else
NEWARGS=${NEWARGS} $arg
fi
done
Lapo,
Note that the above won't work correctly if the program is expected to
create the file with a given name... IMO, there is no way of writing a
generic wrapper script without knowing anything about program parameters.
Igor
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