On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, at 21:42, Christopher Faylor thusly quipped: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 07:18:12PM -0700, g...@malth.us wrote: >> BTW, along the same lines, I stated previously it would break >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=m4/doub >> le-sl ash-root.m4. Turns out I was wrong, the m4 has a hard-coded list >> of platforms. So, I have to say, I can't think of one technical or >> merit-based reason this shouldn't be done, aside from the fact that >> it's annoying to hear it endlessly brought up on the mailing list (a >> problem which an implementation would, in fact, solve, not exacerbate). > > I can't quite follow the logic here but if you're saying that if we no longer > treated // as /, people who want to use //usr/local/bin would not complain, > you're right. That doesn't mean that a whole new class of complainer would not > show up, however. > > I can say with absolute certainty that there is one person who would complain.
I was imagining a less intrusive hypothetical approach. For example, perhaps a CYGWIN=nounc flag that would simply turn the feature off, or a way to deactivate in fstab -- in short, anything reversible, and, by default, preserving the existing behavior. Prune-grafting "//" to "/smb" might have been a good idea had it been done at cygwin's inception, but I think it's probably too late now. Although I hate to continue casting myself in this "advocate" role -- I really have very little stake in this -- otherwise you would have patches for this, rather than 1000 words. -gmt -- 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