Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 23:04:26 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Chown bug, attn fileutils maintainer (Was Re: RE : How can i really uninstall completly cygwin from Windows XP Pro ???) Message-ID: <20040209040426.GA34359103@hpn5170x> Mail-Followup-To: "Pierre A. Humblet" , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000001c3ee30$4561e3f0$be00a8c0@florent> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:12:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > BTW, I have a procedural question regarding this. I have a 1-line patch > to fix this in the current fileutils source. However, fileutils is not > maintained, and the problem (generating filenames with the '//' prefix) > affects only Cygwin, so it's unlikely to be accepted upstream, and will > have to be part of a Cygwin-specific patch. > Igor, I believe that the // prefix has special meaning in Posix. All I could find in a few minutes was the last paragraph in the "Pathname Resolution" section of http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm So the upstream maintainer should care. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/