Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-16 Thread egor duda
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.

paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Sven Köhler
hi, 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 /unc/computer/share instead of using the path //computer/share what

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
translates paths like /usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local and manages mount-points etc... cygwin opffers a complete virtual filesystem the cygwin-developers chose, to NOT convert //usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local i would like to know why. Think of it another way: cygwin allows the user to specify

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
. cygwin translates paths like /usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local and manages mount-points etc... cygwin opffers a complete virtual filesystem the cygwin-developers chose, to NOT convert //usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local i would like to know why. Sven, Basically your complaint is inconsistent

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Sven Köhler
Patches gratefully accepted (C). Oops, sorry, I guess it's Donations gleefully accepted now... :-D what do you mean with that? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
speak definitively about why Microsoft chose this behavior. cygwin translates paths like /usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local and manages mount-points etc... cygwin opffers a complete virtual filesystem the cygwin-developers chose, to NOT convert //usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local i would like

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Sven Köhler
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.

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Shankar Unni
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

RE: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Scott Prive
PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Shankar Unni
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?