Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:10:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: symlinks: another failing test case - c://dev/env/DJDIR/...
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> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:08:39 +0000
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> NB: \\dev\env\DJDIR is a UNC and should be treated differently than
> //dev/env/DJDIR. You can't collapse the first two backward-slashes in a UNC.
> But c:\\dev\env\DJDIR is not a UNC and you can collapse the first two-backward
> slashes.

Do we really collapse consecutive backslashes?  I thought we only did
that for forward slashes.

Anyway, be careful with c:\\foo\bar\baz: it _could_ stil be a UNC that
somehow got prepended the drive letter (by some code that doesn't know
about UNCs).  You can easily see that Windows treats such names as
UNCs: if you type at the DOS prompt some command that includes such a
file name, you will see network activity and a significant delay if
the share by the name \\foo\bar does not exist.