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Re: UNC and POSIX paths
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:30:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: UNC and POSIX paths
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:26:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun 17 22:47, gmt@malth.us wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, at 21:42, Christopher Faylor thusly quipped:
>>
>> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 07:18:12PM -0700, gmt@malth.us wrote:
>> >> BTW, along the same lines, I stated previously it would break
>> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=m4/doub
>> >> le-sl ash-root.m4. Turns out I was wrong, the m4 has a hard-coded list
>> >> of platforms. So, I have to say, I can't think of one technical or
>> >> merit-based reason this shouldn't be done, aside from the fact that
>> >> it's annoying to hear it endlessly brought up on the mailing list (a
>> >> problem which an implementation would, in fact, solve, not exacerbate).
>> >
>> > I can't quite follow the logic here but if you're saying that if we no
>> longer
>> > treated // as /, people who want to use //usr/local/bin would not
>> complain,
>> > you're right. That doesn't mean that a whole new class of complainer
>> would not
>> > show up, however.
>> >
>> > I can say with absolute certainty that there is one person who would
>> complain.
>>
>> I was imagining a less intrusive hypothetical approach.
>>
>> For example, perhaps a CYGWIN=nounc flag that would simply turn the feature
>> off, or a way to deactivate in fstab -- in short, anything reversible, and,
>> by default, preserving the existing behavior. Prune-grafting "//" to "/smb"
>> might have been a good idea had it been done at cygwin's inception, but I
>> think it's probably too late now.
>
>A mount table approach along the lines of the cygdrive prefix handling
>might not be such a bad thing, after all. Something along these lines
>
> none /mnt cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
> none /unc uncdrive binary,posix=0 0 0
>
>This would also fix the somewhat special feature that unc paths get the
>same default flag treatment as cygdrive paths.
That's what I was proposing earlier in the thread. It's a SHTDI
proposal, of course.
cgf
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