Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:51:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Many DJGPP programs cause network traffic???
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On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Endlisnis wrote:

> "ls" seems to send ~ 350bytes and recieve ~ 250bytes consistantly.
> Rhide send about 700bytes.

Does it happen every time you run `ls', or just sometime?

One possibility is that you somehow cause these programs to use file
names with double slashes, like "//foo/bar" or "\\foo\bar".  When
presented with such names, Windows 9X will automatically look for them
on the network, on the assumtions that they are UNC references to
network shares (aka networked drives exported by other machines).

Perhaps you set PATH_SEPARATOR=: inside Bash, which causes it to
convert PATH and other file names from x:/foo/bar into the //x/foo/bar
format, and these names somehow leak to the applications you run from
Bash.