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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 17:41:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000526171225.00e6e7e0@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:13:34PM -0500



On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 05:13:34PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 04:07 PM 5/26/00, Parker, Ron wrote:
>> > >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.
>>
>> > I'm assuming by "Make multiple introductory slashes", you're 
>> > excluding the
>> > case of "//"?
>>
>>That wasn't exactly what I was thinking.  I used three for emphasis, but
>>meant that one or more initial slashes would be treated as a single initial
>>slash.
>>
>>It is the Friday before a long weekend and I might be completely brain-dead,
>>but I don't remember a special significance to '//' in UNIX.
>
>Right.  The significance is for UNC paths which can be easily access currently
>using "//<server name>/<share name>" in Cygwin now...

I have mixed feelings about this.  I routinely use //sys/share to access remote
shares.  If cygwin had translated sys:share to //sys/share two or three years
ago then I would be using that mechanism instead.

Unfortunately, this use is embedded in various scripts on my machine.  I would
be surprised if I was the only person who would be affected by this.

Bash's use of // should be fixed, IMO.  I did fix it once myself but I never
forwarded the changes to the maintainer.  My bad.

cgf


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