On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:02:23PM +0800, kou yu wrote: >o, maybe you are right.
It's a good bet that she is. >But I am a little confused. "//server/share" is the POSIX syntax for >SMB share paths, but on windows the syntax is "\\server\share". POSIX *allows* '//something' to have a special meaning. It doesn't state that it is necessarily the syntax for SMB share paths. >And why on linux I input "cd //usr/<tab>", the completion would not >become slow, i.e. why on linux, the syntax "//xxx/xxx" would not be >considered as remote SMB share. (except "smbclient //server/share") Because a '//' has no special meaning on linux. Both '//server/share' and '\\server\share' are valid syntax for Windows. You can believe this or not but Cygwin's behavior is not going to change. cgf -- 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/
