On Dec 23, 2007 1:26 PM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
In fact, if you simply say that this is not a bug of cygwin, but a feature, then I would believe you. > > 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/ > > -- 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/
