RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01 September 2006 08:37, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: > $ nslookup localhost > Server: mail2.siemens.de > Address: 139.25.208.11 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name:localhost.ww002.siemens.net > Address: 127.0.0.1 > > $ > > which is weird, I shouldn't have thought that nslookup return a po

RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-09-01 Thread Schwarz, Konrad
> >> By the way, any idea why //localhost/C$ doesn't work? > > do you have > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > in your hosts file ? Yes, localhost is in %SystemRoot%\System32\etc\drivers\hosts. > No, I don't think that's it. This is netbios name > resolution and DNS doesn't come into it; it's resol

Re: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Schwarz, Konrad wrote: Also, someone called Interix a POS, which I can't find on http://cygwin.com/acronyms, but I guess is derogatory (I originally though "POsix Simulation" or something, to tell the truth). Is there a list of reasons of the drawbacks of Interix somewhere? Um, yeah, that woul

RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30 August 2006 16:43, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Schwarz, Konrad, le Wed 30 Aug 2006 17:39:48 +0200, a écrit : >> By the way, any idea why //localhost/C$ doesn't work? > > do you have > 127.0.0.1 localhost > in your hosts file ? > No, I don't think that's it. This is netbios name resolution

Re: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Schwarz, Konrad, le Wed 30 Aug 2006 17:39:48 +0200, a écrit : > By the way, any idea why //localhost/C$ doesn't work? do you have 127.0.0.1 localhost in your hosts file ? Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-30 Thread Schwarz, Konrad
> > > The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps > > > `//./C/'). > > > So... why exactly do you need this? The only thing I might actually > > support here (keeping in mind Eric's comments and CGF's clear > > agreement with them) would be treating '//./' as a special cas

RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-29 Thread Schwarz, Konrad
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of mwoehlke > > The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps > > `//./C/'). > So... why exactly do you need this? The only thing I might > actually support here (keeping in mind

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-25 Thread mwoehlke
Schwarz, Konrad wrote: Hi, I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin file-system name space. The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps `//./C/'). The reasons for this mappin

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:13:34AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM: >>I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an >>alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin >>file-system name space. >> >>The proposed

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM: > Hi, > > I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an > alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin > file-system name space. > > The proposed mappi

POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-25 Thread Schwarz, Konrad
Hi, I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin file-system name space. The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps `//./C/'). The reasons for this mapping are: * POSIX allows pa