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Re: Chown bug, attn fileutils maintainer (Was Re: RE : How can i really uninstall completly cygwin from Windows XP Pro ???)
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:12:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> BTW, I have a procedural question regarding this. I have a 1-line patch
> to fix this in the current fileutils source. However, fileutils is not
> maintained, and the problem (generating filenames with the '//' prefix)
> affects only Cygwin, so it's unlikely to be accepted upstream, and will
> have to be part of a Cygwin-specific patch.
>
Igor,
I believe that the // prefix has special meaning in Posix.
All I could find in a few minutes was the last paragraph in the
"Pathname Resolution" section of
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
So the upstream maintainer should care.
Pierre
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