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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:27:51 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: fstat, fd_props and inventing inodes, revision 3 [PATCH]
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:17:42 +1000
[snip]
> > DJ204 D:\dj204\gnu\filutil4.1\src>ls \\ac-p42g\ghost
> > ls: //ac-p42g/ghost: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> 
> No, this is not expected and shouldn't happen.
> 
> My guess is that the DJGPP-specific startup code converts backslashes
> into forward slashes, and that causes the UNC-detection code to fail,
> since it expects backslashes.  Perhaps we should recognize
> "//server/share" as a UNC, or maybe the Fileutils startup code should
> leave UNCs alone, if it doesn't already.
[snip]

Yes, the fileutils code converts all backward slashes to forward slashes. This
is wrong - the fileutils start-up code should leave UNCs alone.

I will fix that sometime. The next couple of weeks are already looking pretty
busy for me.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]