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Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:38:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:24:44PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:40:45PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >>Cygwin tries real hard to hide dos-isms, not sure if it would be OK to
> >>have both path separators.
> >
> >The point of using ; as I understand it is that : is for indicating
> >drive letters. Unless Cygwin hides drive letters entirely, will :
> >really work as a path separator?
>
> Cygwin hides drive letters as much as possible. You can't *create* a
> file with a colon in it but other than a cygwin user shouldn't have to
> worry about 'a:' stuff. It uses ':' for its path separator, just like
> unix. Using anything else would confuse it.
In that case I wonder if it's appropriate to declare
HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM at all under cygwin. GCC currently does
think it can get a drive letter in a pathname fed to it under
cygwin...
zw