1.1.8: bug in \\ handling in absolute fns

Tue May 15 19:54:00 GMT 2001

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:43:21PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
>> Our customers requested that backslashes in filenames be treated as
>> native MS-DOS paths and so that change was incorporated into cygwin last
>> year. So, I'm not surprised that a hybrid usage like /a\b would fail.
>> That would be translated to x:\a\b on the current drive.
>>Ok, thanks. I will beat on the libiberty people to fix this problem.
>They will resist.

I believe that DJ Delorie is the libiberty maintainer. If you let DJ
know which function it is that is doing this, I'm sure that he'll look
into it.
cgf
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