SFTP server when / is c:\

[Mark Bradshaw]

SFTP server has some unfortunate logic that occurs when you try to ls, get,
or put things in root (/).  It's got logic all over the place that creates
paths that start with "//".  Cygwin doesn't like to deal with these kind of
paths. <grin>  This causes ls, get, and put (at least) to not work in /.

When you do an ls (for example) sftp server creates pathnames to pass back.
It does this by combining the path + "/" + filename.  This works great as
long as the path doesn't includes a final /, which it normally doesn't.
However, when you switch to / the path is / (obviously).  The ls would then
end up coming back with things like //., //.., //cygwin.bat, etc.

Seems that unix machines deal with these double slash paths, but cygwin
doesn't?  Am I on track here.  Either way, I'm wondering which direction is
the best to attempt a patch with.  Patch sftp-server.c in lots of spots, or
cygwin in (?) spots?

Mark


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