Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/05/08/04:13:11
Eli said:
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you misunderstand me? The idea is to use
> > /dev/net/... internally to avoid this destructiveness, and map
> > \\host\ to /dev/net/host on entry to the C library and then map it
> > back to \\host just before calling *DOZE.
>
> Who will map the UNCs to /dev/net? There's no single entry point to
> library functions that deal with file names, so this is not really
> trivial. An application can do that, but it will need to have special
> code for this.
>
> Also, it is not clear to me what is simpler: to add the support for
> /dev/net or just make sure \\host\share survives all the functions that
> parse file names. Feel free to suggest patches, though.
Oh! I see now. The problem isn't primarily the library, it's the
applications that munge/change the double slashes. Oh, well, it was
just an idea.
Do the net directors (if that's what they are called) handle "//"
equivalently as "\\" (similar to DOZE's handling of "/" and "\")?
Right,
MartinS
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