Subject: Re: paths like //usr/local
From: Sven Köhler <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:09:27 +0200

>>a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path.
>>this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as 
>>a normal "unix"-path.
>>
>>i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path 
>>like /unc/computer/share instead of using the path //computer/share
>>
>>what was the idea behind the current behaviour?
> 
> Do you think that Microsoft employees read this mailing list?  I'm sure
> that there are one or two but I doubt that they could speak definitively
> about why Microsoft chose this behavior.

cygwin translates paths like /usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local and 
manages mount-points etc...
cygwin opffers a complete "virtual filesystem"

the cygwin-developers chose, to NOT convert //usr/local to 
c:\cygwin\usr\local

i would like to know why.

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