On Wed, 19 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > So that explains your patch to symlink_info::check. But it's not > exactly right to circumvent this only for pipes. Any \\.\foo path > should get the same handling. Wouldn't it be more straightforward to > use is_unc_share or a slightly modified version of is_unc_share?
I'm confused here. Are you suggesting that UNC paths can't contain symlinks? I use UNC paths to access Samba shares containing Cygwin symlinks regularly. I hope that won't become unsupported. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...