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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:27:21 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: SFTP server when / is c:\
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In-Reply-To: <911C684A29ACD311921800508B7293BA010A8AAE@cnmail>; from bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:44:08PM -0400

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:44:08PM -0400, Mark Bradshaw wrote:
> SFTP server has some unfortunate logic that occurs when you try to ls, get,
> or put things in root (/).  It's got logic all over the place that creates
> paths that start with "//".  Cygwin doesn't like to deal with these kind of
> paths. <grin>  This causes ls, get, and put (at least) to not work in /.
> 
> When you do an ls (for example) sftp server creates pathnames to pass back.
> It does this by combining the path + "/" + filename.  This works great as
> long as the path doesn't includes a final /, which it normally doesn't.
> However, when you switch to / the path is / (obviously).  The ls would then
> end up coming back with things like //., //.., //cygwin.bat, etc.
> 
> Seems that unix machines deal with these double slash paths, but cygwin
> doesn't?  Am I on track here.  Either way, I'm wondering which direction is
> the best to attempt a patch with.  Patch sftp-server.c in lots of spots, or
> cygwin in (?) spots?

Patching sftp-server even if that will result in some... resistance
by the maintainers is appropriate.
Cygwin has to deal with // paths (//server/share/...) and we can't
change that.

If you're able to create a clean and neat patch I will try to
convince the maintainers of openssh.

Corinna

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