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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:57:46 -0400
To: "Keith Starsmeare" <keith_starsmeare AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: //c - Ouch!
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At 10:44 AM 9/26/2001, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
>I just updated a colleagues cygwin and couldn't immediately figure out why
>it was going so very slowly. The reason - //c references in the path. Every
>time a command was issued that searched past that reference it would freeze
>because it now scans the network. Ouch!
>
>Also, this opens the (remote) possibility of unscrupulous, twisted people
>calling their machines 'C' to catch people out!
>
>I guess we knew this was going to happen, but I wish that there was a way to
>temporarily issue some kind of big, unmissable warning somewhere! (But I'm
>not volunteering, I can't think of where would be the best place - setup,
>bash maybe?)


The problems you state are exactly the reasons for removing this syntax
for accessing drives.  It's too dangerous and problematic.




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