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 15:35:37 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications Message-ID: <20040716133537.GX1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040715033232 DOT GP25893 AT eumel DOT yoo DOT local> <20040715233034 DOT GA3729 AT eumel DOT yoo DOT local> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040715221848 DOT 033c3b40 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <20040716120644 DOT GB745 AT eumel DOT yoo DOT local> <20040716130128 DOT GW1389 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20040716131059 DOT GC745 AT eumel DOT yoo DOT local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040716131059.GC745@eumel.yoo.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 16 15:10, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Hi, > > * Corinna Vinschen wrote (2004-07-16 15:01): > >even if I repeat other postings, please note that double slashes are > >absolutely fine according to the standards. Leading double slashes may > >have a special meaning on POSIX implementations and the *well* *known* > >Windows specific meaning is an UNC path for accessing network (CIFS) > >shares. Honestly, there should be no surprise in that fact to users > >of your software. If you really want to mangle file names in your > >application instead of just leaving them alone, then your application > >should honor that fact, to be *portable*. > > > >This isn't us being mean, as usual, that's just fact. > > I already agreed that it should be supported, so what's missing? Erm... nothing, apparently. I must have misinterpreted your posting. Sorry, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/