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Subject: Re: cygpath -w for non-existent server
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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

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