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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:05:52 -0400
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Subject: Re: Automatic Drive Mapping
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In-Reply-To: <3950B82E.9202EC25@dothill.com>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:42:22AM -0400

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:42:22AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Jason Tishler wrote:
>> When I first tried this (about a month ago), I seemed to have problems
>> with Sun's javac and/or Microsoft's cl complaining about UNC paths not
>> being supported for the the current directory.  When I tried to reproduce
>> the problem today, I can only get cmd to fail.  But, who cares about cmd
>> anyway?
>
>It appears after more head scratching (not banging), I am able to
>reproduce the problem that Sun's javac cannot deal with UNC style
>paths:
>
>    $ mount
>    Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>    K:\jdk1.2.2         /usr/java           system       binmode
>    ...
>    $ javac Hello.java 
>    $
>    $ umount -s /usr/java
>    $ mount -s -b //cancerman/apps/jdk1.2.2 /usr/java
>    $ javac Hello.java 
>    java.lang.Error: Fatal: Resource for javac is missing
>	    at sun.tools.javac.Main.initResource(Main.java:126)
>    ...
>
>The point of the above is to demonstrate that there is at least one
>important (IMO) native Win32 app that cannot deal with UNC style paths.

I don't understand why mounting and umounting will have any effect on
a non-cygwin application.

Also, if javac is not reacting correctly to UNC paths then have you
reported this as a bug to Sun?

cgf