On Feb 15 22:57, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
> >> >> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath.
> >> >> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""')
> >> >> silently
> >> >> return an empty result without error message.
> >> >> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts.
> >>
> >> > Why isn't redirecting the message to /dev/null not sufficient, something
> >> > like this (bash syntax)?
> >>
> >> Because it'll require creating a redirection? And this kind of redundant
> >> inserts blurring the code.
> >> Returning a non-zero exit code would suffice for debugging purposes.
> >>
> >> > cygpath -ml "" >/dev/null 2&>1
> >>
> >> Err, not > /dev/null !!! :D
>
> > dos_path=$( [ -n "${posix_path}" ] && cygpath -ml "${posix_path}" )
>
> > ?
>
> I appreciate the effort, bit this even MORE complicating the possible use
> case.
>
> Look, I'm asking for simplification without loosing functionality.
> If I NEED to check the path for existence, I would write something to the
> extent ofI'm getting a bit puzzled. If it's only the message you don't want, then why not just send this message to /dev/null??? NATIVE=$(cygpath -ml "$2" 2>/dev/null) > But if I (and the program that I would feed it to) don't care (which is often > the case), the message printed from cygpath doesn't add to functionality. > > P.S. > I've tried to rebuild it myself, but hit a roadblock. > While trying to rebuild only winsup/utils, this happens That never works. Why don't you just fetch the source archive from the last package and use the cygport file inside? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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