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Re: TAP tests and symlinks on Windows

Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>

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From: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-07-08T15:07:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 3:54 PM Andrew Dunstan <
andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

>
> Incidentally, perl2host is arguably a bad name for this routine - there
> is nothing perl-specific about the paths, they are provided by the msys
> environment. Maybe virtual2host or some such would be a better name, or
> even just host_path or native_path.
>

There is a utility cygpath [1] meant for the conversion between Unix and
Windows path formats, that might be a meaningful name also.

[1] http://cygwin.net/cygwin-ug-net/cygpath.html

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha

Commits

  1. Enable almost all TAP tests involving symlinks on Windows