lyx has problem with network directory names

[Eric Blake]

> > It appears that lyx is trying to access the root directory (/). It
> > does not seem to know how to interpret the Windows syntax "//."
> 
> This is because lyx uses the boostfs library with BOOST_POSIX defined,
> so any path of the form //xxx/yyy is normalized to /xxx/yyy.
> I understand that //machine/path is a windowism, but I think that it
> should be allowed on cygwin. Can this be seen a boost bug?

Yes, it is most definitely a boost bug and should be reported
upstream.  POSIX allows implementations to treat leading //
specially, so boost is violating POSIX by normalizing it.

-- 
Eric Blake

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