diff -ur msys.orig/source/winsup/cygwin/path.cc msys/source/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
--- msys.orig/source/winsup/cygwin/path.cc	Sat Oct 30 18:23:47 2010
+++ msys/source/winsup/cygwin/path.cc	Thu Aug 18 10:23:55 2011
@@ -3429,7 +3429,7 @@
       return -1;
     }

-  strcpy (win32_path, p.get_win32 ());
+  normalize_win32_path (p.get_win32 (), win32_path);
   return 0;
 }