On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: > 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.
It'd be interesting to find out how many such scripts there are. Have you tried looking for them, e.g. by hooking open() ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/880263/how-can-i-detect-file-accesses-in-linux ) and logging them while doing something big (like rebuilding a linux distro, or building all your company's linux software)? - Dan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
