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Re: cygpath -w for non-existent server


On 6 December 2010 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec Â6 11:59, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 6 December 2010 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > - "//foo" is a virtual path, valid only in Cygwin. ÂYou can't access
>> > Â"\\foo" in the Win32 API using file or directory access functions. ÂIt
>> > Âjust doesn't exist as a path. ÂUNC paths are only valid with at least
>> > Âtwo path components as in "\\server\share". ÂSince "//foo" is a
>> > Âvirtual path, there's no Win32 equivalent. ÂSo, from the Windows
>> > Âperspective there's "No such file or directory".
>>
>> Weird. "\\server" works fine in Explorer and also with cygstart, so I
>> guess Explorer implements it as some sort of virtual directory.
>
> That's right.
>
>> Is
>> that enough reason to support it as a special case in the Cygwin path
>> conversion?
>
> Huh, now I see the problem. Â*Existing* virtual server-only paths
> are converted, only non-existent aren't. ÂI fixed that in CVS.

Fix confirmed. Thanks!

Andy

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