On Dec 6 11:59, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 6 December 2010 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Dec 4 06:35, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> > $ cygpath -w //foo > >> > cygpath: error converting "//foo" - No such file or directory > >> > > >> > Is that as intended? > > [...] > > - "//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". > > Weird. "\\server" works fine in Explorer and also with cygstart, so I > guess Explorer implements it as some sort of virtual directory.
That's right. > Is > that enough reason to support it as a special case in the Cygwin path > conversion? Huh, now I see the problem. *Existing* virtual server-only paths are converted, only non-existent aren't. I fixed that in CVS. 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
