hi, a path like //usr/local is treated as an UNC path. this might leads to problems when an application is using //usr/local as a normal "unix"-path.
i don't know how to overcome the problem, but one might think of a path like /unc/computer/share instead of using the path //computer/share what was the idea behind the current behaviour? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/