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Re: /cygdrive/windows ?
`cygpath --windir`
The only time we'd need something like this visible outside a compiled
application is a script, and a script can use cygpath to get the
directory path and store it. Any compiled program can just call
GetWindowsDirectory() itself.
Index: cygpath.cc
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/utils/cygpath.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -p -2 -r1.3 cygpath.cc
*** cygpath.cc 2000/04/13 05:23:30 1.3
--- cygpath.cc 2000/05/03 02:49:35
*************** static struct option long_options[] =
*** 36,39 ****
--- 36,41 ----
{ (char *) "version", no_argument, NULL, 'v' },
{ (char *) "windows", no_argument, NULL, 'w' },
+ { (char *) "windir", no_argument, NULL, 'W' },
+ { (char *) "sysdir", no_argument, NULL, 'S' },
{ 0, no_argument, 0, 0 }
};
*************** Usage: %s [-p|--path] (-u|--unix)|(-w|--
*** 49,52 ****
--- 51,56 ----
-u|--unix print Unix form of filename\n\
-w|--windows print Windows form of filename\n\
+ -W|--windir print `Windows' directory\n\
+ -S|--sysdir print `system' directory\n\
-p|--path filename argument is a path\n",
prog_name);
*************** main (int argc, char **argv)
*** 116,119 ****
--- 120,124 ----
int options_from_file_flag;
char *filename;
+ char buf[MAX_PATH], buf2[MAX_PATH];
prog_name = strrchr (argv[0], '/');
*************** main (int argc, char **argv)
*** 127,131 ****
windows_flag = 0;
options_from_file_flag = 0;
! while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, (char *) "hac:f:opuvw", long_options, (int *) NULL))
!= EOF)
{
--- 132,136 ----
windows_flag = 0;
options_from_file_flag = 0;
! while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, (char *) "hac:f:opSuvwW", long_options, (int *) NULL))
!= EOF)
{
*************** main (int argc, char **argv)
*** 163,166 ****
--- 168,183 ----
windows_flag = 1;
break;
+
+ case 'W':
+ GetWindowsDirectory(buf, MAX_PATH);
+ cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(buf, buf2);
+ printf("%s\n", buf2);
+ exit(0);
+
+ case 'S':
+ GetSystemDirectory(buf, MAX_PATH);
+ cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(buf, buf2);
+ printf("%s\n", buf2);
+ exit(0);
case 'h':