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Re: UNC and POSIX paths
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:15:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: UNC and POSIX paths
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On Jun 18 11:05, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 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 /.
That's not POSIX compatible. See the URL I posted earlier in this thread.
Corinna
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