On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:47:09 +0100 Achim Gratz <...> wrote: > This goes to show that you really, really, really want to understand the > corner > cases in this script.
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:41:00 -0500 Eric Blake <...> wrote: > On cygwin, '/' and '//' are two different directories, as allowed by > POSIX. Converting // into / is a violation of the POSIX requirements on > pathname resolution on systems where // is distinct from /. > ... > If you want to guarantee that an arbitrary variable concatenated > with / and then a glob expands into the expected directory, then YOU > have to prefilter the arbitrary variable to make sure it does not > consist solely of slashes. Well, guys my expextations are that the program/script execution conditions in Cygwin should be the same as in other popular POSIX systems (namely it is Linux) and, as a consequence, I should avoid the case where somewhere in a bash script evaluating of some variable would lead to one of the following command to execute: rm -rf /* rm -rf //* rm -rf ///* rm -rf ////* that all do the very same thing in Linux. If at some time it was considered that $ ls //Server/Folder in Cygwin should behave like > net view \\Server\Folder in Windows to be able to view network shares, I belive this could be realized with using of some special folder e.g. /cygnetwork, like /cygdrive does it for Windows drives. Supporting of UNC paths that are actually off the POSIX unified tree, directly for POSIX user commands, breaks consistency with Linux user environment, which is the feature of Cygwin that is highly valued by the most of the users. -- 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
