Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:42:59 +0400 From: egor duda Reply-To: egor duda Organization: deo X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <51174066634.20021016104259@logos-m.ru> To: Sven Köhler CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: paths like //usr/local In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi! Wednesday, 16 October, 2002 Sven Köhler skoehler@upb.de wrote: SK> the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an SK> UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a SK> unix-environment. Then those applications are making false assumptions. Expecting two leading slashes to be interpreted like single one is non-portable and therefore is wrong. Chris has already cited appropriate words from standard. Just fix the application. Ain't that simple? Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/