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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 05:32:32 +0200
From: Thorsten Haude <nedit AT thorstenhau DOT de>
To: Cygwin ML <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications
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Hi,

I'm trying to find the best approach to solve a bug reported against
NEdit:=20
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D873188&group_=
id=3D11005&atid=3D111005

The reporter complains that NEdit cannot open files from network
shares using Cygwin's double-slash notation. That is not suprising,
since NEdit silently drops any doubled slash before using the path.


I know that NEdit is not the only application ignoring multiplied
slashes, so I wonder how this is normally handled with Cygwin. Indeed,
a simple test on Linux seems to indicate that fopen() accepts any
number of slashes, so this is not isolated to NEdit.

- The user guide ("Mapping path names") does tell me something about
what's to expect but little about implementation.
- Googling brought me zilch, all involved words seem to be much too
generic to find anything, and Google does not search for slashes.
- I was also looking for another document (Posix?) to help here but
came up empty.


My questions:
- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up
before in other applications?
- Do you know a resource which explains how Posix apps are expected to
handle paths like this?
- Does Cygwin offer another way around this problem? Could cygpath be
of any help?


Thank you very much for any pointers you can give me!


Thorsten
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Auch Hunger ist Krieg.
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