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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 23:04:26 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Chown bug, attn fileutils maintainer (Was Re: RE : How can i really uninstall completly cygwin  from Windows XP Pro ???)
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On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:12:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> BTW, I have a procedural question regarding this.  I have a 1-line patch
> to fix this in the current fileutils source.  However, fileutils is not
> maintained, and the problem (generating filenames with the '//' prefix)
> affects only Cygwin, so it's unlikely to be accepted upstream, and will
> have to be part of a Cygwin-specific patch.
> 
Igor, 
I believe that the // prefix has special meaning in Posix.
All I could find in a few minutes was the last paragraph in the 
"Pathname Resolution" section of
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
So the upstream maintainer should care.

Pierre


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