On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:35:53AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: >Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> //MACHINE currently generates ENOENT, whether or not there is a >> server on the network with that name, and mkdir(2), stat(2), and >> chdir(2) with an argument of "//MACHINE" fail. > >That's certainly a hassle. Let's not worry about going through >zillions of lines of application code working around that >incompatibility. Let's get Cygwin fixed instead.
Cygwin has had this (windows) limitation since 1997. I don't think anyone is in a hurry to fix it. It isn't trivial to do. The main thing that seems to be affected is "mkdir -p" so if we just have to keep a localized patch for mkdir sitting around it seems like that is our best option. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
