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: Thu, 5 May 2005 13:19:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Paul Eggert cc: Eric Blake , cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: mkdir -p and network drives In-Reply-To: <87acn9aavq.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: References: <3.0.5.32.20050502232204.00b52180@incoming.verizon.net> <42777719.8090103@byu.net> <8764xym6vf.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <427A147D.2030109@byu.net> <87acn9aavq.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 5 May 2005, Paul Eggert wrote: > Eric Blake writes: > > > //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a > > server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and > > chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail. > > That's certainly a hassle. Let's not worry about going through > zillions of lines of application code working around that > incompatibility. Let's get Cygwin fixed instead. One potential problem is that on Windows, using NetShareEnum when checking the path will mean that every time someone does "mkdir -p", the command will have to wait until all network shares are examined. This could result in quite a bit of a delay, to say the least... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/