On 3 August 2010 00:17, Dave Hylands wrote: >> [cygstart] does not play nice with unc paths. >> Starting by cmd.exe /c start path does. >> Suggestions? > > My open utility plays nice with UNC paths...
... because it uses cygwin_posix_to_win32_path_list(), which doesn't produce paths starting with '\\?\UNC\' instead of '\\'. That function is deprecated for Cygwin 1.7 though, because it doesn't support Unicode or paths longer than MAX_PATH. Andy -- 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