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Re: //c - Ouch!
- To: "Keith Starsmeare" <keith_starsmeare at yahoo dot co dot uk>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: //c - Ouch!
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:57:46 -0400
At 10:44 AM 9/26/2001, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
>I just updated a colleagues cygwin and couldn't immediately figure out why
>it was going so very slowly. The reason - //c references in the path. Every
>time a command was issued that searched past that reference it would freeze
>because it now scans the network. Ouch!
>
>Also, this opens the (remote) possibility of unscrupulous, twisted people
>calling their machines 'C' to catch people out!
>
>I guess we knew this was going to happen, but I wish that there was a way to
>temporarily issue some kind of big, unmissable warning somewhere! (But I'm
>not volunteering, I can't think of where would be the best place - setup,
>bash maybe?)
The problems you state are exactly the reasons for removing this syntax
for accessing drives. It's too dangerous and problematic.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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