On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On 02/18/2010 12:55 PM, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: >> - if the executed program is compiled with cygwin's gcc the program >> receives \127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (just one backslash at the begining). >> - if it's compiled with cl it gets \\127.0.0.127\foo.cxx (double >> backslash - what I expected) > '\' is an escape character in C, Unix, and Linux. In Windows, it's a > path separator. Use '/' instead when working with Cygwin and you'll > avoid allot of problems. Better yet, use POSIX paths exclusively.
"\\hostname" is remote path location, I don't think I can use "//hostname" instead, either for cygwin program and especially not for not-cygwin program, can I? (can't check it now) -- Piotr Krukowiecki -- 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
