Sender: "Rolf Campbell" <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:56:23 -0400
From: "Rolf Campbell" <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
Organization: Nortel Networks
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE crashes without traceback. [solved!]
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:
>
> > Open Notepad.  Try to open "\\foo".  You will get a quick responce that it
> > can't be opened.
> > Try to open "C:\\foo" and it will wait for at least 5 seconds before telling
> > you that it can't be opened.
>
> It doesn't prove anything, just that \\foo is resolved quickly while
> C:\\foo isn't.  This is a function of the name you feed Windows and also
> of your specific network configuration.

> The fact is that (as somebody here reported) during the wait the machine
> sends network packets.  Search the archives of this group, and you will
> find several reports like that.  I have just seen a message several month
> ago that reported accesses to the LAN being done by collect2 from one of
> the EGCS 1.x releases ported to DJGPP.

    I think you misunderstood me.  I wasn't saying that it wasn't network
related.  All I was saying was that network time-out's are usually much shorter
than 5 seconds (especially for invalid machine names).  I don't understand why
Windows would treat C:\\name different than \\name, as you have pointed out
earlier that "C:" gets added to the beginning anyways (or whatever drive is the
default), before UNC identification.
    I agree that C:\\foo and C:\/foo both cause network traffic, but I don't
understand why Windows waits longer for "C:\\foo" than for "\\foo".

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318