Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 19:12:11 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: fixpath problem in Novell drives.
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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.