bug#15648: 24.2.50; gnutls SSL connection to IMAP server causes emacs to crash completely

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:12:34 -0500 <emacs@kosowsky.org> wrote: 

> The absence of cygwin-mount magic file handling when a file name is
> passed directly to the gnutls c-code without going through any of the
> standard magic-file-handling file access routines is the crux of the
> problem.

> So, again I see only 2 solutions:
> 1. Change (or omit) the "/usr" path and make it relative to cygwin
>    root (though this would not work generally since cygwin root is
>    changeable)

> 2. Implement magic handling so that paths are automagically translated
>    to be correct at the file system level. In this case, by inserting
>    the cygwin root.

Could we just call http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/html/cygpath.html
on the path (or the equivalent C function)?  It seems to be guaranteed
to work but may be very slow with the execution overhead.

Ted