From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18617 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2011 18:32:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 18499 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Mar 2011 18:32:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-gw0-f41.google.com) (74.125.83.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:32:00 +0000 Received: by gwaa12 with SMTP id a12so3820939gwa.0 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:31:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.179.5 with SMTP id g5mr1719940anp.117.1300818718572; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.232.12 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:31:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201103221824.42843.pedro@codesourcery.com> References: <4D88E3DE.8020704@gmail.com> <201103221824.42843.pedro@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: RFC: Issue about assumption of DOSish file-system for cygwin From: Kai Tietz To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Dave Korn , GCC Patches , Binutils Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg01005.txt.bz2 2011/3/22 Pedro Alves : > 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. =A0 So it might be necessary here for cygwin case to >> allow \|/ and ':/ for absolute path detection. > > IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH already allows that when HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM is t= rue. > > -- > Pedro Alves > Hmm, interesting. I look in more detail. As for DOSish file-system a leading slash/backslash isn't necessarily an absolute path. So code is somewhat broken for native windows. But well, we can live by this for now. Thanks for your time. Kai