cygpath -w for non-existent server

[Andy Koppe]

On 6 December 2010 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  6 11:59, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 6 December 2010 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > - "//foo" is a virtual path, valid only in Cygwin.  You can't access
>> >  "\\foo" in the Win32 API using file or directory access functions.  It
>> >  just doesn't exist as a path.  UNC paths are only valid with at least
>> >  two path components as in "\\server\share".  Since "//foo" is a
>> >  virtual path, there's no Win32 equivalent.  So, from the Windows
>> >  perspective there's "No such file or directory".
>>
>> Weird. "\\server" works fine in Explorer and also with cygstart, so I
>> guess Explorer implements it as some sort of virtual directory.
>
> That's right.
>
>> Is
>> that enough reason to support it as a special case in the Cygwin path
>> conversion?
>
> Huh, now I see the problem.  *Existing* virtual server-only paths
> are converted, only non-existent aren't.  I fixed that in CVS.

Fix confirmed. Thanks!

Andy

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