Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/06/16:34:24
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Thomas Demmer wrote:
> I actually didn't try "REN", but a "MOVE" is refused by DOS, so DOS
> itself does recognize UNCs.
Did you try MOVE with UNCs? I meant to ask what happens if you use the
usual DOS i:foo and j:bar names. For that, DOS doesn't need to know
about UNCs.
> > However, if people think that this case is important enough to handle, I
> > will do that.
> I do think it is important in the long run, but I also believe that
> this requires a major rewrite of lots of file name handling code.
> I don't see any way to support drive letters _and_ UNCs in a foolproof
> way.
I didn't mean to go that far ;-). I only meant to make `stat' return the
same inode *and* the same drive number for remote files which map to the
same \\SERVER\ prefix. This is a change which is local to `stat'. I was
asking how important is to handle this case correctly. Presumably, not
many people map different drives to the same server, otherwise we would
be hearing a lot of complaints.
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