On Jun 17 17:36, 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.
Maybe there has been said enough in this thread already, but I have to add this: Cygwin's behaviour *is* POSIX compatible. Consider this excerpt from SUSv4 Base specifications, section 4.12 "Pathname Resolution" (1): A pathname consisting of a single <slash> shall resolve to the root directory of the process. [...] If a pathname begins with two successive <slash> characters, the first component following the leading <slash> characters may be interpreted in an implementation-defined manner, although more than two leading <slash> characters shall be treated as a single <slash> character. Corinna (1) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
