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* pathnames.sgml: Convert some backslashes to slashes.

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Christopher Faylor 2008-12-13 21:14:44 +00:00
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2008-12-13 Christopher Faylor <me+cygwin@cgf.cx>
* pathnames.sgml: Convert some backslashes to slashes.
2008-12-11 Christian Franke <franke@computer.org>
* pathnames.sgml: New section for /proc/registry. Document registry

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@ -164,10 +164,10 @@ arguments:</para>
<title>Displaying the current set of mount points</title>
<screen>
<prompt>bash-3.2$</prompt> <userinput>mount</userinput>
f:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
f:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
f:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
e:\src on /usr/src type system (binmode)
f:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
f:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
f:/cygwin on / type system (binmode)
e:/src on /usr/src type system (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount)
</screen>
@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ information.</para>
from a particular Win32 path to a POSIX one, Cygwin will
automatically default to an imaginary mount point under the default POSIX
path <filename>/cygdrive</filename>. For example, if Cygwin accesses
<filename>Z:\foo</filename> and the Z drive is not currently in the
mount table, then <filename>Z:\</filename> would be automatically
<filename>Z:/foo</filename> and the Z drive is not currently in the
mount table, then <filename>Z:/</filename> would be automatically
converted to <filename>/cygdrive/Z</filename>. The default
prefix of <filename>/cygdrive</filename> may be changed in the fstab file
as outlined above.</para>
@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ translate between Win32 and POSIX pathnames in shell scripts. See
<para>The <envar>HOME</envar>, <envar>PATH</envar>, and
<envar>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</envar> environment variables are automatically
converted from Win32 format to POSIX format (e.g. from
<filename>c:\cygwin\bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename>, if
<filename>c:/cygwin\bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename>, if
there was a mount from that Win32 path to that POSIX path) when a Cygwin
process first starts.</para>
@ -479,11 +479,11 @@ does not. In the same situation the function call
<filename>filename.exe</filename>. The two files can be distinguished
by examining their inodes, as demonstrated below.
<screen>
<prompt>C:\&gt;</prompt> <userinput>ls * </userinput>
<prompt>C:/&gt;</prompt> <userinput>ls * </userinput>
a a.exe b.exe
<prompt>C:\&gt;</prompt> <userinput>ls -i a a.exe</userinput>
<prompt>C:/&gt;</prompt> <userinput>ls -i a a.exe</userinput>
445885548 a 435996602 a.exe
<prompt>C:\&gt;</prompt> <userinput>ls -i b b.exe</userinput>
<prompt>C:/&gt;</prompt> <userinput>ls -i b b.exe</userinput>
432961010 b 432961010 b.exe
</screen>
If a shell script <filename>myprog</filename> and a program