X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=Sjl3_jpSpicA:10 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=B-QiVG8SQ-2uP08VrjoA:9 a=Tn0L_2PJ4cDXe3uN6vcYY7BDESQA:4 a=eDFNAWYWrCwA:10 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Message-ID: <4784D349.1080703@byu.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:59:37 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, ckyoog@gmail.com Subject: Re: 1.5.25-7: problem about bash completion References: <20071222095758.GC29568@calimero.vinschen.de> <20071223052601.GA23767@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to kou yu on 12/26/2007 10:07 AM: |> POSIX *allows* '//something' to have a special meaning. It doesn't |> state that it is necessarily the syntax for SMB share paths. |> | In fact, if you simply say that this is not a bug of cygwin, but a | feature, then I would believe you. It is a feature of cygwin that // is used, in accordance with SUSv3 and POSIX, as the implementation-defined start for remote paths. It is a feature of Linux that // is treated as an implementation-defined synonym of /. Live with it. Bash completion will always take its time when completing on // because it requires a network access, rather than a local hard drive search of /, and there is nothing I can or want to do about it. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhNNJ84KuGfSFAYARAn2oAKCE5rG7m0KX9If3dAAOJLqBWlFmmQCggFZn g+fesohKPKCDi/kvirpXp4I= =YCQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/