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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:53:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Issue about assumption of DOSish file-system for cygwin
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> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:31:58 +0100
> From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>, 	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
> 
> > IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH already allows that when HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM is true.
> 
> Hmm, interesting.  I look in more detail. As for DOSish file-system a
> leading slash/backslash isn't necessarily an absolute path.

Yes, it is, for all practical purposes in the context of this
discussion.