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: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:10:59 +0200 From: Thorsten Haude To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications Message-ID: <20040716131059.GC745@eumel.yoo.local> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040715033232.GP25893@eumel.yoo.local> <20040715233034.GA3729@eumel.yoo.local> <6.1.0.6.0.20040715221848.033c3b40@pop.prospeed.net> <20040716120644.GB745@eumel.yoo.local> <20040716130128.GW1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="m51xatjYGsM+13rf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040716130128.GW1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. Keywords: Netz gegen Kinderporno Organization: Ministry of Information, Department of Information Dispersal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cd.edit_threads cd.trash_folder X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam --m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, * Corinna Vinschen wrote (2004-07-16 15:01): >even if I repeat other postings, please note that double slashes are >absolutely fine according to the standards. Leading double slashes may >have a special meaning on POSIX implementations and the *well* *known* >Windows specific meaning is an UNC path for accessing network (CIFS) >shares. Honestly, there should be no surprise in that fact to users >of your software. If you really want to mangle file names in your >application instead of just leaving them alone, then your application >should honor that fact, to be *portable*. > >This isn't us being mean, as usual, that's just fact. I already agreed that it should be supported, so what's missing? Thorsten --=20 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain --m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA99PjW/x2JEBlodoRApkJAJ4mW+acqIqeexcSE1Pz0bE4PA+GOACdEYd+ XBxygqbXtQYuFUH3wDi2qjg= =xuCw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m51xatjYGsM+13rf--