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From: Enrico Forestieri <forenr AT tlc DOT unipr DOT it>
Subject:  Re: lyx has problem with network directory names
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:54:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Larry Hall writes:

> 
> Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > David Arnstein writes:
> >> I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my
> >> home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This
> >> is a network directory, obviously.
> >>
> >> When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint
> >> 	QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt
> >>
> >> When I try to save a lyx document to my home directory, lyx complains
> >> when it presents its file browser dialog box. It says
> >> 	Could not read directory /fs-sj1-15
> >>
> >> It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It
> >> does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//."
> > 
> > This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined,
> > so any path of the form //xxx/yyy is normalized to /xxx/yyy.
> > I understand that //machine/path is a windowism, but I think that it
> > should be allowed on cygwin. Can this be seen a boost bug?
> > 
> 
> Possibly.  But I expect boost folks would argue that using UNC syntax doesn't
> fit with POSIX semantics.  Currently, the code keys off of BOOST_POSIX or
> BOOST_WINDOWS defines to determine the API to use.  Under Cygwin, BOOST_POSIX
> makes the most sense but with that definition comes the restriction of no UNC
> paths.  Obviously, the workaround for now is to just mount the path in Cygwin
> to create a POSIX path to use.  This will make Lyx happy without too much of a
> burden for the user.

As I explained in an another mail, in this case the culprit is qt3
and not boost. I suspected boost because of the following comment
in boost/libs/filesystem/src/path_posix_windows.cpp:

  // POSIX & Windows cases: "", "/", "/foo", "foo", "foo/bar"
  // Windows only cases: "c:", "c:/", "c:foo", "c:/foo",
  //                     "prn:", "//share", "//share/", "//share/foo"

but, even if UNC paths are not taken into account, the leading '/' is
not stripped out. Instead, it is qt3 that strips it and I also posted
a patch allowing UNC paths in qt3. Maybe it can be applied to the cygwin
package?

-- 
Enrico


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