Listing a non-existent network file

[Christian Franke]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> On Cygwin 1.7:
> $ ls -l //foo/bar
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andy Administrators 0 Dec  1  2006 //foo/bar
> 
> Server 'foo' doesn't exist, and on both the reply comes after about 10
> seconds, presumably a server lookup timeout. I think the Cygwin 1.5
> reply is the correct one.
> 
> This is on an XP machine; I haven't yet tried it elsewhere.
> 

Can also be reproduced on Win7 and Cygwin 1.7.5-1.

Christian




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