X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <497C7843.8030504@byu.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:33:39 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sjors Gielen CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, debian-kcygwin-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ed Schouten Subject: Re: [bugreport] Two slashes should not indicate remote machine or special directory References: <497C6D52.5050504@dazjorz.com> <497C72F8.8040503@byu.net> <497C7785.3000605@dazjorz.com> In-Reply-To: <497C7785.3000605@dazjorz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Sjors Gielen on 1/25/2009 7:30 AM: > I figured this was by design, but I didn't know there was an explicit > exception in POSIX for this. > However, as I'm sure you're aware, there are a lot of Linux applications > which depend on, for example, //etc being the same as /etc. These all > have to be patched to use ///etc or /etc. Yes - any app that uses //etc when they meant /etc or ///etc are buggy according to POSIX, and that is one of the joys of porting buggy apps to cygwin. > > How much of Cygwin will be broken if we remove //remoteserver as an > equivalent to Windows \\remoteserver? I use it all the time. It would break my usage patterns. > Wouldn't it be a better solution > to provide an alternative for //remoteserver, i.e. > /cygdrive/net/remoteserver or maybe even net://remoteserver or > smb://remoteserver? This would fix both the problem with Linux > compatibility, and still leave this feature in Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl8eEMACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCfpwCgiPwE8Wgqr/MzBC5pjPtJbAEV 6w8An3bZjVB0aBVivvx8KedId3lqXZ7E =h5pD -----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/