X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:13:37 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygpath -w for non-existent server Message-ID: <20101206131337.GA25347@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20101204150728 DOT GB26471 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20101206113429 DOT GC17176 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Dec 6 11:59, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 6 December 2010 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Dec  4 06:35, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> > $ cygpath -w //foo > >> > cygpath: error converting "//foo" - No such file or directory > >> > > >> > Is that as intended? > > [...] > > - "//foo" is a virtual path, valid only in Cygwin.  You can't access > >  "\\foo" in the Win32 API using file or directory access functions.  It > >  just doesn't exist as a path.  UNC paths are only valid with at least > >  two path components as in "\\server\share".  Since "//foo" is a > >  virtual path, there's no Win32 equivalent.  So, from the Windows > >  perspective there's "No such file or directory". > > Weird. "\\server" works fine in Explorer and also with cygstart, so I > guess Explorer implements it as some sort of virtual directory. That's right. > Is > that enough reason to support it as a special case in the Cygwin path > conversion? Huh, now I see the problem. *Existing* virtual server-only paths are converted, only non-existent aren't. I fixed that in CVS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple