Automatic Drive Mapping
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Jun 21 08:05:00 GMT 2000
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:42:22AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Jason Tishler wrote:
>> When I first tried this (about a month ago), I seemed to have problems
>> with Sun's javac and/or Microsoft's cl complaining about UNC paths not
>> being supported for the the current directory. When I tried to reproduce
>> the problem today, I can only get cmd to fail. But, who cares about cmd
>> anyway?
>
>It appears after more head scratching (not banging), I am able to
>reproduce the problem that Sun's javac cannot deal with UNC style
>paths:
>
> $ mount
> Device Directory Type Flags
> K:\jdk1.2.2 /usr/java system binmode
> ...
> $ javac Hello.java
> $
> $ umount -s /usr/java
> $ mount -s -b //cancerman/apps/jdk1.2.2 /usr/java
> $ javac Hello.java
> java.lang.Error: Fatal: Resource for javac is missing
> at sun.tools.javac.Main.initResource(Main.java:126)
> ...
>
>The point of the above is to demonstrate that there is at least one
>important (IMO) native Win32 app that cannot deal with UNC style paths.
I don't understand why mounting and umounting will have any effect on
a non-cygwin application.
Also, if javac is not reacting correctly to UNC paths then have you
reported this as a bug to Sun?
cgf
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