Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Subject: Re: paths like //usr/local Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:05:35 +0200 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd953cc64.dip.t-dialin.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034712044 5441 217.83.204.100 (15 Oct 2002 20:00:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:00:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: de, en > Perhaps something like a unc_prefix is in order, similar to the cygdrive > prefix? the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a unix-environment. the 2 slashes should be collapsed and nothing else. > "Patches gratefully accepted" (C). Oops, sorry, I guess it's "Donations > gleefully accepted" now... :-D which unc-prefix would that be? i would prefer an "automount-like" feature as i already suggested: /unc-mount-point-path/computer/share where /unc-mount-point-path/computer/ might be a virtual folder with all shares avaiable and /unc-mount-point-path/ might be a virtual folder with all known computers just an idea. -- 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/