Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3BB4697D.6E09147E@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:13:49 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: CD List X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygdev Subject: Re: FW: pubdestroyer2001.exe via anonymous FTP? References: <20010928014544 DOT F32646 AT redhat DOT com> <20010928100822 DOT C23062 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:45:44AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:48:33PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > >This suggests to me that (as a faaaaar off when-time-happens) we might > > >be able to handle some of the tricky things like source dirs called > > >"aux" by redirecting the posix name aux to \\.\.....\aux. > > > > > >Anyway, not planning to do this now, or expecting anyone else to, just > > >mailing so the concept is in the archives. > > > > Yeah, it's been mentioned before. I don't believe that syntax works on > > Windows 9x, though, does it? > > That syntax is only supported by NT. \\.\ is the mapping of the > NT internal \??\ namespace into the Win32 namespace. > And doesn't make much sense since the usual case in UNIX land is to create a directory or file named aux; not access to some special device name. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com