Hi Andy, On Dec 4 16:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 4 06:35, Andy Koppe wrote: > > With non-existent server foo, and Cygwin 1.7.7 or the latest 1.7.8 snapshot: > > > > $ cygpath -w //foo/bar > > \\foo\bar > > > > $ cygpath -w //foo > > cygpath: error converting "//foo" - No such file or directory > > > > Is that as intended? > > > > Also, both only return after a few seconds delay, so I assume they > > trigger network accesses. Is that necessary? > > Probably yes, due to the way SMB works. The "No such file or directory" > seems wrong though. I'll investigate next week.
Done. The behaviour is perfectly valid. - "//foo/bar" requires to access the path, which in turn triggers an SMB request on the wire. This takes a couple of seconds within Windows itself, even if the DNS request returns immediately that the server doesn't exist. NetBIOS? Anyway, there's nothing Cygwin can do about it. - "//foo" is a virtual path, valid only in Cygwin. You can't access "\\foo" in the Win32 API using file or directory access functions. It just doesn't exist as a path. UNC paths are only valid with at least two path components as in "\\server\share". Since "//foo" is a virtual path, there's no Win32 equivalent. So, from the Windows perspective there's "No such file or directory". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
