Hi!
Wednesday, 16 October, 2002 Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SK the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an
SK UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a
SK unix-environment.
Then those applications are making false assumptions.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:09:27PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote:
a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path.
this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as
a normal unix-path.
i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path
like
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Sven Köhler wrote:
a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path.
this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as
a normal unix-path.
i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path
like
Patches gratefully accepted (C). Oops, sorry, I guess it's Donations
gleefully accepted now... :-D
what do you mean with that?
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:51:19PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Sven Köhler wrote:
a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path.
this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as
a normal unix-path.
i don't know how to
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cygwin allows the user to specify paths like: c:\foo\bar and c:/foo/bar.
Similarly, it allows //foo/bar and \\foo\bar .
If that doesn't satisfy you then you can go back to the Because we're mean
argument.
I've been hurt by this too, and it makes
Perhaps something like a unc_prefix is in order, similar to the cygdrive
prefix?
the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an
UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a
unix-environment.
the 2 slashes should be collapsed and nothing else.
On 10/15/2002 1:05 PM, Sven Köhler wrote:
the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an
UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a
unix-environment.
Don't be silly - there are Unix-y environments where // doesn't work
the way you think
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Subject: Re: paths like //usr/local
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cygwin allows the user to specify paths like: c:\foo\bar
and c:/foo/bar.
Similarly, it allows //foo/bar and \\foo\bar
On 10/15/2002 1:05 PM, Sven Köhler wrote:
the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an
UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a
unix-environment.
And there are other things too. Perhaps cygwin should ban \ file
separators in paths?
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