>>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.
cygwin translates paths like /usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local and manages mount-points etc... cygwin opffers a complete "virtual filesystem" the cygwin-developers chose, to NOT convert //usr/local to c:\cygwin\usr\local i would like to know why. -- 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/
