Sven Eden writes: > Doing a simple stat on / if (and only if) the UNC lookup > fails, does not endanger anything. It wouldn't break > anything or do any other damage. Besides from adding an > additional <0.01s lag to any failed access that *really* > meant a network share. > > So no. Adding this tiny extra functionality wouldn't break > anything for anybody, but allowed the usage of software that > relies on the non-cygwin behaviour. (And is outside the > users control.)
Well, it does break things if both //this/or/that /this/or/that exist and then at some point host "this" becomes unreachable. So I'd keep //unc/path to mean just that on principle. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- 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
