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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:32:46 -0400
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC:	Keith Starsmeare <keith_starsmeare AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: //c - Ouch!
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> At 10:44 AM 9/26/2001, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> >I just updated a colleagues cygwin and couldn't immediately figure out why
> >it was going so very slowly. The reason - //c references in the path. Every
> >time a command was issued that searched past that reference it would freeze
> >because it now scans the network. Ouch!
> >
> >Also, this opens the (remote) possibility of unscrupulous, twisted people
> >calling their machines 'C' to catch people out!
> >
> >I guess we knew this was going to happen, but I wish that there was a way to
> >temporarily issue some kind of big, unmissable warning somewhere! (But I'm
> >not volunteering, I can't think of where would be the best place - setup,
> >bash maybe?)
> 
> The problems you state are exactly the reasons for removing this syntax
> for accessing drives.  It's too dangerous and problematic.

In case it wasn't clear from Larry's message, the '//c' syntax for
accessing local drives was deprecated for the past year, and has been
removed completely beginning with cygwin-1.3.3.  Therefore, '//c' now
has the single, non-ambiguous meaning of 'go look at the machine named
"C"'.  (ergo, if you want to avoid network delays, don't use '//'
notation.  To access local drives, the only mechanisms are now:
/cygdrive/c/ or 'mount C: /c')

--Chuck

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