Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <392EFA58.456793A7@veritas.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:27:36 -0700 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Parker, Ron" Cc: Chris Faylor , "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: Re: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd) References: <20000526215054.0A742F805@mx1.hotpop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If the decision stands to change bash, doesn't that imply a need to fix the other shells too? I think a single fix, in a common place for all applications, applied automatically (and without the application needing to know about it), would be preferred. But as Chris points out, many users may already be relying on the //name as a computer, leading to a lot of editing to fix the problem. Ron, you asked me about a free NFS client for windows. At this time I don't know of one, but I'll see what I can find. However, this may not be needed. With SAMBA available for UNIX systems, a translation of server:share to //server/share would transparently access the SAMBA server. There are configuration issues to make this work correctly but that is administration stuff. I'd suggest not worrying about the NFS side. What do you think? "Parker, Ron" wrote: > > > Bash's use of // should be fixed, IMO. I did fix it once > > myself but I never > > forwarded the changes to the maintainer. My bad. > > As did I. Would your preference be that I rework the patch for it and > submit it to the bash maintainer? > > Would a cygwin patch with server:share as an alternate form be welcome? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: Plain Text (text/plain) -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com