UNC and POSIX paths
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Mon Jun 17 13:59:00 GMT 2013
On 06/17/2013 06:36 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I decided to pay attention to one more problem. Lots of not very well
> written configure scripts and makefiles like to access things like
> '//usr/bin'. Under Cygwin this causes problem because Cygwin treats '//' in
> Windows-style as access to network shares.
> What if we change this ? We could have a mount entry, something like '/unc'
> (or /smb, /net, whatever) and access it like '/smb/computername/sharename'.
> I think this would improve POSIX compatibility a lot.
Why not simply fix the "not very well written configure scripts and
makefiles" instead? BTW I've never come across a single one of those.
Where are you getting yours?
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