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Re: UNC and POSIX paths


On Jun 17 22:47, gmt@malth.us wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, at 21:42, Christopher Faylor thusly quipped:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 07:18:12PM -0700, gmt@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.

A mount table approach along the lines of the cygdrive prefix handling
might not be such a bad thing, after all.  Something along these lines

  none /mnt cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
  none /unc uncdrive binary,posix=0 0 0

This would also fix the somewhat special feature that unc paths get the
same default flag treatment as cygdrive paths.


Corinna

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