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RE: //c - Ouch!
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: //c - Ouch!
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:53:00 -0400
> From: Keith Starsmeare [mailto:keith_starsmeare@yahoo.co.uk]
> Subject: Re: //c - Ouch!
> > The problems you state are exactly the reasons for removing this syntax
> > for accessing drives. It's too dangerous and problematic.
>
> As cgf was saying the other day, small incremental changes are often more
> acceptable in open source projects. Maybe the cygwin dll should have gone
> through a six month period whereby //c was broken completely and then
> repaired to recognise UNC paths rather than local drives.
Except that UNC paths have been recognized for a long time.
> I do know that the //c provided such a useful way to describe
> a local drive
/c is even more useful. Use mount!!!
> ...
> It's just that the implications will effect a lot of users
No, it will not. //c has been deprecated for a long time.
Nearly all users have made the transition.
[I bet my unsupported assertion is more accurate than yours.]
> and the release
> note (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00112.html) has it
> mentioned as the fifth item under "User level change overview".
>
> I'm sorry to stir this up again, but I think this needs to be
> in big bold
> flashing letters!
>
> Keith
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