UNC and POSIX paths

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 18 16:19:00 GMT 2013


On Jun 18 11:05, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > And, it nontrivially complicates path handling since we'd have to make
> > decisions about whether to honor // or not.
> >
> 
> I'd suggest using /// for UNC, dropping exactly one / if FILEPATH[0]
> and FILEPATH[1] is equal to /.

That's not POSIX compatible.  See the URL I posted earlier in this thread.


Corinna

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