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 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:30:34 +0200 From: Thorsten Haude To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications Message-ID: <20040715233034.GA3729@eumel.yoo.local> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040715033232 DOT GP25893 AT eumel DOT yoo DOT local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. Keywords: Bin Laden Akku, die =?iso-8859-1?Q?Preise_?= =?iso-8859-1?B?Zvxy?= Batterien sind Mord! Organization: Ministry of Information, Department of Information Dispersal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cd.edit_threads cd.trash_folder X-IsSubscribed: yes --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, * Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>- Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up >>before in other applications? > >I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this.=20 >Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both the user and the OS=20 >know what it is they are trying to do. The path is also displayed at various places. The user might be surprised to see surplus slashes. Thorsten --=20 Das Briefgeheimnis sowie das Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis sind unverletzlic= h. - Grundgesetz, Artikel 10, Abs. 1=20 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA9xOaW/x2JEBlodoRAsdfAKDTX9rcXnIKTqvTOgrFrN3365URqQCgos1z 1GuYXkAcnhjFe+a4ZD2ny8c= =dU/c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--