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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:48:10 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: paths like //usr/local
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:09:27PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote:
>>>a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path.
>>>this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as 
>>>a normal "unix"-path.
>>>
>>>i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path 
>>>like /unc/computer/share instead of using the path //computer/share
>>>
>>>what was the idea behind the current behaviour?
>>
>>Do you think that Microsoft employees read this mailing list?  I'm sure
>>that there are one or two but I doubt that they could speak definitively
>>about why Microsoft chose this behavior.
>
>cygwin translates paths like /usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local and 
>manages mount-points etc...
>cygwin opffers a complete "virtual filesystem"
>
>the cygwin-developers chose, to NOT convert //usr/local to 
>c:\cygwin\usr\local
>
>i would like to know why.

Think of it another way:

cygwin allows the user to specify paths like: c:\foo\bar and c:/foo/bar.
Similarly, it allows //foo/bar and \\foo\bar .

If that doesn't satisfy you then you can go back to the "Because we're mean"
argument.

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