Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3BB1F51E.33EC1EB6@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:32:46 -0400 From: Charles Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" CC: Keith Starsmeare , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: //c - Ouch! References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20010926104927 DOT 016fb790 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > 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. In case it wasn't clear from Larry's message, the '//c' syntax for accessing local drives was deprecated for the past year, and has been removed completely beginning with cygwin-1.3.3. Therefore, '//c' now has the single, non-ambiguous meaning of 'go look at the machine named "C"'. (ergo, if you want to avoid network delays, don't use '//' notation. To access local drives, the only mechanisms are now: /cygdrive/c/ or 'mount C: /c') --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/