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Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:49:00 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Cc: eggert AT CS DOT UCLA DOT EDU
Subject: Re: mkdir -p and network drives
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:35:53AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> writes:
>
>> //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a
>> server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and
>> chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail.
>
>That's certainly a hassle.  Let's not worry about going through
>zillions of lines of application code working around that
>incompatibility.  Let's get Cygwin fixed instead.

Cygwin has had this (windows) limitation since 1997.  I don't think
anyone is in a hurry to fix it.  It isn't trivial to do.  The
main thing that seems to be affected is "mkdir -p" so if we just
have to keep a localized patch for mkdir sitting around it seems
like that is our best option.

cgf

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