I reinstalled Cygwin64 and all is fixed now.  Not sure what was going on
before.

Thanks!

Paul

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:

> The C:\\Path\\to\\files does work.  Thanks!
>
> Hopefully Cygwin maintainers will fix whatever is wrong with its path
> resolution.  (Note that the command line ls works just fine, is what had me
> completely baffled.)
>
> Paul
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> From that test, it sounds like Cygwin is not resolving its internal
>> symlinks correctly.  If you tried to do an opendir on "C:\\", does
>> that work?  Note that with the Windows paths, you're definitely going
>> to need to escape (backslash) every backslash in the directory name.
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > / ok
>> > /cygdrive - Fails
>> > /cygdrive/c fails
>> > /home Fails
>> > /home/paul Fails
>> > . Ok
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> > On May 9, 2015 2:22 PM, "Tilghman Lesher" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Can you do an opendir on something higher in the chain?  I'd suggest
>> >> something along the lines of "/cygdrive/c", or something like that, to
>> >> see if the problem is the opendir command itself, or if it's something
>> >> higher.  For that matter, can you do an opendir on "/"?
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> > I'm sure this is a SMDH moment... but I have a Perl program that
>> does an
>> >> > opendir to get the list of files.  Been running fine for years under
>> >> > Cygwin.
>> >> > I just installed Cygwin64.  Tried to run it.  opendir fails with "No
>> >> > such
>> >> > file or directory".
>> >> >
>> >> > Doing a command line   ls same-dir-path   works fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > It is outside C:\Cygwin64\ so the path is a
>> >> > /cygdrive/c/some/other/dir/....
>> >> > but that shouldn't matter.  (Also tried from a symbolic link)
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm sure it is something I'm doing wrong, but this is so simple, I
>> don't
>> >> > know what I could be doing wrong, or failing to check.  Any thoughts?
>> >> >
>> >> > Paul
>> >> >
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