On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:42:41PM +0000, Francis Litterio wrote: >DePriest, Jason R. writes: >> According to http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames, >> Cygwin supports both Win32 and POSIX file paths and they are >> translated internally on-the-fly as needed. >>Indeed. Cygwin has allowed pathnames to start with drive letters for as long as >I can remember. You might want to look at the release announcement for Cygwin 1.7.1. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html Specifically, the part that says: - Incoming DOS paths are always handled case-insensitive and get no POSIX permission, as if they are mounted with noacl,posix=0 mount flags. seems relevant. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple