This is the mail archive of the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

RE: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 6:27 PM
> To: Parker, Ron; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: File name syntax (WAS: RE: FW: Can not config sshd)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 05:22 PM 5/26/00, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > > Right.  The significance is for UNC paths which can be easily 
> > > access currently
> > > using "//<server name>/<share name>" in Cygwin now...
> >
> >Understood.  My intention was that server:share would be converted to
> >\\server\share before it reached the Windows file API's used 
> inside of
> >cygwin.  
> >
> >The entire idea was that many UNIX programs parse the colon 
> paths as network
> >paths already and this would bring cygwin a little more 
> inline with the UNIX
> >world.
> 
> 
> Actually, I should have said "//<server name>/<share 
> name>/<path>" to be 
> clear.
> 
> I guess as long as the NFS style syntax was supported by 
> Cygwin and was 
> supported in all places that the current UNC paths are 
> supported in Windows
> (i.e. *everywhere*), there shouldn't be any loss of 
> functionality with this
> change...
> 


Perhaps, but a great loss of compatibility... :-(

BTW, how did you put server:/tools/bin in you PATH?

Bernard

--------------------------------------------
Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingéniérie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel:	+33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax:	+33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail:	dautrevaux@microprocess.com
		b.dautrevaux@usa.net
-------------------------------------------- 


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]