On Thu, 12 Jun 2025, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: > I would think that if you're building something against Cygwin, it's probably > best to assume it's POSIX where only forward-slash is special and not try to > second-guess.
This is unsafe, and actually where the rust PR started out. If you only treat '/' as special, a program may be tricked into allowing path traversal with file/directory names like '..\..' or 'C:\Windows' which are not path traversing or absolute paths in POSIX. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
