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From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:00:51 -0500
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> No, bash defaults HOME to / and then that get's prepended to 
> the path name
> after it resolves the tilde character ~ sor ~/myfile bcomes 
> //myfile.  Now the
> problem with //myfile is that // is translated to \\ and 
> \\myfile as a server
> doesn't exist.  The time it takes to eventually time out is 
> directly related to
> the number of domains your associated with * the timeout 
> period * the number of
> retries.  This is the reason we now have /cygdrive instead of 
> using // to
> denote an unmounted device/directory.

Which makes me wonder would a patch to cygwin be welcome that did the
following?

* Make multiple introductory slashes on a path behave as a single
introductory slash
* Make paths that begin with name: and contain no backslashes behave as a
network path

In other words, "///myfile" would translate to "/myfile" and
"machine:dir/file" or "machine:/dir/file" would map to the Windows path
\\machine\dir\file.


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