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According to Sjors Gielen on 1/25/2009 7:30 AM:
> I figured this was by design, but I didn't know there was an explicit
> exception in POSIX for this.
> However, as I'm sure you're aware, there are a lot of Linux applications
> which depend on, for example, //etc being the same as /etc. These all
> have to be patched to use ///etc or /etc.

Yes - any app that uses //etc when they meant /etc or ///etc are buggy
according to POSIX, and that is one of the joys of porting buggy apps to
cygwin.

> 
> How much of Cygwin will be broken if we remove //remoteserver as an
> equivalent to Windows \\remoteserver?

I use it all the time.  It would break my usage patterns.

> Wouldn't it be a better solution
> to provide an alternative for //remoteserver, i.e.
> /cygdrive/net/remoteserver or maybe even net://remoteserver or
> smb://remoteserver? This would fix both the problem with Linux
> compatibility, and still leave this feature in Cygwin.

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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