On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:09:50PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote: >hi, > >a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path. >this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as >a normal "unix"-path. > >i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path >like /unc/computer/share instead of using the path //computer/share > >what was the idea behind the current behaviour?
Do you think that Microsoft employees read this mailing list? I'm sure that there are one or two but I doubt that they could speak definitively about why Microsoft chose this behavior. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
