bug#16679: 24.3.50; can't create a newly encrypted gpg file with easypg in cygwin emacs

[Jason Lewis]

On 8/02/2014 7:54 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:42:25 -0500
Cc: 16679@debbugs.gnu.org

The fact that the file is actually on drive c but pretends to be on
drive d (?) seems odd to me, but may be totally normal for all I know of
Cygwin:

  write-region(nil nil "/cygdrive/c/Users/jason/test.gpg" nil t "/cygdrive/d/Users/jason/test.gpg")

No, it isn't normal.  "cygdrive/x" is the Cygwin incarnation of the
Windows "x:" reference to a drive letter.  So I guess there's some
problem somewhere, since I can hardly believe the OP has a d:/Users
directory.

Ah, I didn't notice that in the backtrace, that was well spotted by Glen.

Because I like to live life on the edge, I decided to mount my user directory from my drive D:, following a procedure much like this one:

http://caskater4.blogspot.com.au/2007/09/moving-your-data-where-you-want-in.html

something like this:

1. xcopy /E /H /O /X /Y /I C:\Users D:\Users
2. rmdir /S /Q C:\Users
3. rmdir "C:\Documents and Settings"
4. mklink /J C:\Users D:\Users
5. mklink /J "C:\Documents and Settings" D:\Users

I'm not in front of that computer right now but that sounds as though it has something to do with it.

could it be that there is two ways the path is expanded in easypg? and they return different results?

Jason

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Jason Lewis
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