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From: David Bolen <db3l AT fitlinxx DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 03:16:48 -0400
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rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com [rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com] writes:

> The problem, as I understand it, was found when someone tried to do a make
and
> had errors, which were traced back to path names having two leading
slashes,
> which were then being interpreted as UNC paths.  But these were really
local
> path names, created because there was a variable with the value "/" which
was
> prepending to another value that began with a slash, resulting in names
with
> two leading slashes.  UNIX system handle this gracefully in some way,
making
> the "//" act like a single slash.

As I believe Chris mentioned in one of the earlier responses, an important 
point is that in general it's only safe to assume Unix systems will treat 
"//" as "/" if it occurs in the middle of a path specification, not at the 
front (which can be treated in a system-specific manner).  I don't believe
that 
all Unix systems handle such names similarly, nor automatically make them
act
like a single slash.

So at the Cygwin DLL level, I'd rather leave the behavior as is - a
convenient
system-defined manner of handling "//" to map to a useful Windows UNC
notation,
without requiring shell quoting.

-- David

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