From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 97485 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2018 09:57:43 -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 97469 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2018 09:57:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mout.gmx.net Received: from mout.gmx.net (HELO mout.gmx.net) (212.227.15.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:57:40 +0000 Received: from [62.225.77.164] ([62.225.77.164]) by 3c-app-gmx-bs06.server.lan (via HTTP); Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:57:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: From: "Sven Eden" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Aw: Re: Re: Problematic interpretion of paths starting with double slashes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:05:00 -0000 Sensitivity: Normal In-Reply-To: References: X-UI-Message-Type: mail X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00141.txt.bz2 > Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Juni 2018 um 20:02 Uhr > Von: Lee > On 6/12/18, Sven Eden wrote: > > Good style is to guarantee, that > > not more than one slash is issued. > > Why don't you submit a patch to guarantee that not more than one slash > is issued? Already done. > Or submit a bug report that the earlier patch broke portability? Already done. > Asking cygwin to change their long standing, posix allowed, > implementation defined behavior seems like the least likely way to get > the problem fixed. I never did that. All I did was to ask whether such an extension would be possible. It is, so my question is answered. And btw., the implementation, if extended in the way I proposed, would still be POSIX compliant. ;-) Cheers Sven -- 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