paths like //usr/local
Sven Köhler
skoehler@upb.de
Tue Oct 15 12:23:00 GMT 2002
>>a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path.
>>this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as
>>a normal "unix"-path.
>>
>>i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path
>>like /unc/computer/share instead of using the path //computer/share
>>
>>what was the idea behind the current behaviour?
>
> Do you think that Microsoft employees read this mailing list? I'm sure
> that there are one or two but I doubt that they could speak definitively
> about why Microsoft chose this behavior.
cygwin translates paths like /usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local and
manages mount-points etc...
cygwin opffers a complete "virtual filesystem"
the cygwin-developers chose, to NOT convert //usr/local to
c:\cygwin\usr\local
i would like to know why.
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