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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:17:42 +1000
> >
> I have applied the patch to my djgpp directory and I thought I would try out
> "ls" and comapre it against dir to see if the UNC code worked. I did find
> some discrepancies as indicated below. Are the results below expected or
> not?
> 
> DJ204 D:\dj204\gnu\filutil4.1\src>dir \\ac-p42g\ghost
>  Volume in drive \\ac-p42g\ghost has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 3E10-A62B
> 
>  Directory of \\ac-p42g\ghost
> 
> 01/01/2003  08:54 PM    <DIR>          .
> 01/01/2003  08:54 PM    <DIR>          ..
> 06/01/2003  09:32 PM     2,147,465,827 C_06JAN2.GHO
> 03/01/2003  05:27 PM     2,147,461,465 C_DRIVE_.GHO
> 03/01/2003  05:27 PM       642,021,517 C_DRI001.GHS
> 06/01/2003  09:32 PM       404,498,931 C_06J001.GHS
>                4 File(s)  5,341,447,740 bytes
>                2 Dir(s)   1,550,123,008 bytes free
> 
> 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.

If my guess is wrong, could you please step with a debugger into the
code and see where does it fail?

Btw, `ls' doesn't call `fstat', so this bug is probably unrelated to
Richard's changes.