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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: UNC and POSIX paths
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:57:45 -0700
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On 06/17/2013 06:36 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote:
>   Hello!
>
>   I decided to pay attention to one more problem. Lots of not very well
> written configure scripts and makefiles like to access things like
> '//usr/bin'. Under Cygwin this causes problem because Cygwin treats '//' in
> Windows-style as access to network shares.
>   What if we change this ? We could have a mount entry, something like '/unc'
> (or /smb, /net, whatever) and access it like '/smb/computername/sharename'.
> I think this would improve POSIX compatibility a lot.
Why not simply fix the "not very well written configure scripts and 
makefiles" instead? BTW I've never come across a single one of those. 
Where are you getting yours?
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Very funny Scotty - now beam down my clothes.


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