From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 104894 invoked by alias); 12 Jun 2018 20:01:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 103376 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jun 2018 20:01:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.39) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 20:01:20 +0000 Received: from vsmx002.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.192]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B4B6D9B91C for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 20:01:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [87.185.213.130]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 17892199C22 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2018 20:01:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Aw: Re: Problematic interpretion of paths starting with double slashes References: Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:31:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Sven Eden's message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:14:25 +0200") Message-ID: <87efhbdbaz.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 Sven Eden writes: > Doing a simple stat on / if (and only if) the UNC lookup > fails, does not endanger anything. It wouldn't break > anything or do any other damage. Besides from adding an > additional <0.01s lag to any failed access that *really* > meant a network share. > > So no. Adding this tiny extra functionality wouldn't break > anything for anybody, but allowed the usage of software that > relies on the non-cygwin behaviour. (And is outside the > users control.) Well, it does break things if both //this/or/that /this/or/that exist and then at some point host "this" becomes unreachable. So I'd keep //unc/path to mean just that on principle. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple