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RE: [Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:41:56 +0100
- Subject: RE: [Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives
----Original Message----
>From: Eric Blake
>Sent: 06 May 2005 23:29
> Also, what should //.. resolve to, / or //? And if it resolves to /,
> should // be an entry in the readdir() of /? I would argue that //..
> should resolve to //, meaning we just have two distinct roots in the
> directory tree.
Wouldn't it work to just have a magic directory called '/' in the root
dir, just like the other magic dirs 'dev' and 'proc'? Then it would be
called '//', and it could have '.' and '..' entries just like '/dev' and
'/proc' do.
Well, like /proc does, anyway.
cheers,
DaveK
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