[cfe-dev] Broken "not" and platform file paths

[Csaba Raduly]

Hi John,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:43 AM, John Thompson  wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out why a bunch of tests are failing on Windows, and
> the first thing I see is that the "not" program from utils/not reports that
> the path given to it is not executable, which is because of forward slashes
> in the Path object passed around, which nearly every Windows call that takes
> a path will choke on.

That is not quite true. The Windows _API_ can cope just fine with
forward slashes. It is cmd.exe which uses forward slashes for options
and therefore requires backslashes in the paths.


Csaba
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