title: Who handles the paths in Cygwin
body: <p>I am curious to find out who handles the paths in cygwin.</p>
  
  <p>For instance if I do the following, it works:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cd C:\
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However when I do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ pwd
  /cygdrive/c
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Who is responsible for the discrepancy here?
  The reason I am curious is that "cd C:" among'st other tools accept windows paths but when it comes to displaying them they show something different.</p>
  
  <p>If I do include the cygwin bin folder in my path (under regular cmd) then I know it all works as in cmd, so what is it thats causing this convertion, is it the bash/shell?</p>