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Re: UNC and POSIX paths
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:05:18 -0400
- Subject: Re: UNC and POSIX paths
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> And, it nontrivially complicates path handling since we'd have to make
> decisions about whether to honor // or not.
>
I'd suggest using /// for UNC, dropping exactly one / if FILEPATH[0]
and FILEPATH[1] is equal to /.
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