RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Wed Dec 3 20:20:00 GMT 2014


Greetings, cyg Simple!

> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, cyg Simple!
>>
>>> Don't forget that CMD will not create a second connection to a
>>> \\host\share if Cygwin already has one open.
>>
>> What do you mean by that?

> $ cd //somehost/someshare
> $ cmd /c start cmd

> cmd will complain about UNC paths and start in %WINDIR% instead.

That's why Windows mount homedir to a disk letter in first place.
But even if you choose the hard way, you can tell cmd to stop being ridiculous.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 03.12.2014, <23:09>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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