On 5/27/05, Eric Blake wrote:
> Therefore, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC45 is out of date, and we
> need a FAQ update.  It is now possible to do `mkdir -p
> //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir' and everything just works fine!  However,
> `mkdir -p \\\\machine\\share\\path' fails, because coreutils expects Unix
> path names, not Windows style.  So it is probably worth rewording this FAQ
> to point out why using \ doesn't always do what the user expects.


OK, I'll update it.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

Reply via email to