Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: posix-style device names in mount X-Emacs: Emacs 20.2, MULE 3.0 (MOMIJINOGA), Meadow-1.00 (MIDORI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI MIME-Edit 0.100 - "Shijima") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Kazuhiro Fujieda Date: 05 Feb 1999 19:11:57 +0900 Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Semi-gnus 6.0.4 (based on Quassia Gnus v0.23) mount.exe can pass a posix style path as the device name to the mount system call. But It isn't supported by the system call. It rarely cause problems because the device name is simply backslashified in mount_info::add_item(). But in the following case on the latest snapshot... $ mount //d/text /text $ mount \\d\tex /text user textmode C: / user binmode $ ls /text ls: /text: No such device or address If mount.exe or the mount system call converted the device name to the win32 style path, this problem wouldn't occur. ____ | AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda | HOKURIKU School of Information Science o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology