RFC: Issue about assumption of DOSish file-system for cygwin

2011-03-22 Thread Kai Tietz
Hello, I noticed this issue while working on those directory-separator thing for DOSish file-systems, and somehow this looks odd to me. For some reason the filenames.h header assumes for cygwin DOSish file-system, but in fact cygwin uses POSIXish file-system. I assume this definition was caused

Re: RFC: Issue about assumption of DOSish file-system for cygwin

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22/03/2011 11:00, Kai Tietz wrote: I noticed this issue while working on those directory-separator thing for DOSish file-systems, and somehow this looks odd to me. For some reason the filenames.h header assumes for cygwin DOSish file-system, but in fact cygwin uses POSIXish file-system. I

Re: RFC: Issue about assumption of DOSish file-system for cygwin

2011-03-22 Thread Kai Tietz
2011/3/22 Pedro Alves pe...@codesourcery.com: On Tuesday 22 March 2011 18:11:28, Kai Tietz wrote: Ok, thanks for explaining it. I am just a bit concerned here about the ABSOLUTE path detection. As then for cygwin this will be for UNIXish path never true.   So it might be necessary here for