Re: [PATCH] Let gdb know that cygwin is dosish

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I recently found that a bug that I'd been halfheartedly tracking down
>>for months was caused by the fact that some of gdb's code didn't
>>recognize the fact that f:/ was an absolute path under cygwin.
>>
>>This patch should fix that as well as a number of other odd
>>incompatibilities with mixed case.
>
>Sounds fine to me (and long overdue ;-), but do Cygwin library
>functions support the drive letter braindamage?  If not, you will get
>yourself in trouble.

Sure.  DOS files just bypass cygwin's path manipulation, for the most
part.

>I wrote filenames.h, so if you need my approval, you've got it.  I don't 
>know who's its responsible maintainer, though.

I assume that only you and I really care about this.  :-)

cgf