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authorcvs2svn <>2012-08-10 13:37:36 +0400
committercvs2svn <>2012-08-10 13:37:36 +0400
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This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'cygwin-cygwin-1_7_12-release
1_7_12-release'. Sprout from cygwin-64bit-branch 2012-08-10 09:37:33 UTC cvs2svn 'This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create branch 'cygwin-64bit-' Cherrypick from master 2012-04-03 07:28:48 UTC Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> ' * syscalls.cc (fhandler_base::stat_fixup): Replace string comparison': COPYING3 COPYING3.LIB ChangeLog MAINTAINERS compile config.rpath config.sub config/ChangeLog config/mh-darwin config/mh-interix config/mh-ppc-aix config/mt-alphaieee config/mt-sde config/picflag.m4 config/stdint.m4 config/tcl.m4 configure configure.ac include/ChangeLog include/bfdlink.h include/dis-asm.h include/dwarf2.h include/elf/ChangeLog include/elf/avr.h include/elf/common.h include/elf/m68hc11.h include/elf/ppc.h include/elf/s390.h include/elf/sparc.h include/filenames.h include/gdb/ChangeLog include/gdb/callback.h include/gdb/signals.def include/gdb/signals.h include/mach-o/ChangeLog include/mach-o/codesign.h include/mach-o/external.h include/mach-o/loader.h include/mach-o/reloc.h 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winsup/cygwin/fhandler_registry.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler_serial.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler_socket.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tape.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler_termios.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tty.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler_virtual.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler_windows.cc winsup/cygwin/flock.cc winsup/cygwin/fork.cc winsup/cygwin/gendef winsup/cygwin/gentls_offsets winsup/cygwin/globals.cc winsup/cygwin/heap.cc winsup/cygwin/hookapi.cc winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/if.h winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/in.h winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/socket.h winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/version.h winsup/cygwin/include/elf.h winsup/cygwin/include/inttypes.h winsup/cygwin/include/mntent.h winsup/cygwin/include/netdb.h winsup/cygwin/include/stdint.h winsup/cygwin/include/sys/elf32.h winsup/cygwin/include/sys/elf64.h winsup/cygwin/include/sys/elf_common.h winsup/cygwin/include/sys/elf_generic.h winsup/cygwin/include/sys/wait.h winsup/cygwin/kernel32.cc winsup/cygwin/lib/_cygwin_crt0_common.cc winsup/cygwin/lib/crt0.h winsup/cygwin/libc/inet_addr.c winsup/cygwin/libc/inet_network.c winsup/cygwin/libc/minires-os-if.c winsup/cygwin/libc/minires.h winsup/cygwin/libc/rcmd.cc winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.cc winsup/cygwin/miscfuncs.h winsup/cygwin/mkvers.sh winsup/cygwin/mmap.cc winsup/cygwin/mount.cc winsup/cygwin/mount.h winsup/cygwin/net.cc winsup/cygwin/ntdll.h winsup/cygwin/passwd.cc winsup/cygwin/path.cc winsup/cygwin/path.h winsup/cygwin/pinfo.cc winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc winsup/cygwin/poll.cc winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml winsup/cygwin/posix_ipc.cc winsup/cygwin/pseudo-reloc.cc winsup/cygwin/regex/regcomp.c winsup/cygwin/registry.cc winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.10 winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.11 winsup/cygwin/release/1.7.12 winsup/cygwin/sched.cc winsup/cygwin/sec_helper.cc winsup/cygwin/security.cc winsup/cygwin/security.h winsup/cygwin/select.cc winsup/cygwin/select.h winsup/cygwin/shared.cc winsup/cygwin/signal.cc winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc winsup/cygwin/sigproc.h winsup/cygwin/smallprint.cc winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc 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diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
index 3a4769e9e..e2a031581 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
<sect2 id="pathnames-intro"><title>Introduction</title>
-<para>Cygwin supports both POSIX- and Win32-style paths. Directory
+<para>Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style paths. Directory
delimiters may be either forward slashes or backslashes. Paths using
-backslashes or starting with a drive letter are always handled as
-Win32 paths. POSIX paths must only use forward slashes as delimiter,
-otherwise they are treated as Win32 paths and file access might fail
-in surprising ways.</para>
+backslashes are always handled as Win32 paths. POSIX paths must only
+use forward slashes as delimiter, otherwise they are treated as Win32
+paths and file access might fail in surprising ways. UNC pathnames
+(starting with two slashes and a network name) are also supported.</para>
<note><para>The usage of Win32 paths, though possible, is deprecated,
since it circumvents important internal path handling mechanisms.
@@ -269,27 +269,11 @@ old user mount points as before.
</sect2>
-<sect2 id="unc-paths"><title>UNC paths</title>
-
-<para>Apart from the unified POSIX tree starting at the <filename>/</filename>
-directory, UNC pathnames starting with two slashes and a server name
-(<filename>//machine/share/...</filename>) are supported as well.
-They are handled as POSIX paths if only containing forward slashes. There's
-also a virtual directory <filename>//</filename> which allows to enumerate
-the fileservers known to the local machine with <command>ls</command>.
-Same goes for the UNC paths of the type <filename>//machine</filename>,
-which allow to enumerate the shares provided by the server
-<literal>machine</literal>. For often used UNC paths it makes sense to
-add them to the mount table (see <xref linkend="mount-table"></xref> so
-they are included in the unified POSIX path tree.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
<sect2 id="cygdrive"><title>The cygdrive path prefix</title>
<para>As already outlined in <xref linkend="ov-hi-files"></xref>, you can
access arbitary drives on your system by using the cygdrive path prefix.
-The default value for this prefix is <filename>/cygdrive</filename>, and
+The default value for this prefix is <literal>/cygdrive</literal>, and
a path to any drive can be constructed by using the cygdrive prefix and
appending the drive letter as subdirectory, like this:</para>
@@ -303,7 +287,7 @@ appending the drive letter as subdirectory, like this:</para>
on a system are subsumed. The mount options of the cygdrive prefix is
used for all file access through the cygdrive prefixed drives. For instance,
assuming the cygdrive mount options are <literal>binary,posix=0</literal>,
-then any file <filename>/cygdrive/x/file</filename> will be opened in
+then any file <literal>/cygdrive/x/file</literal> will be opened in
binary mode by default (mount option <literal>binary</literal>), and the case
of the filename doesn't matter (mount option <literal>posix=0</literal>).
</para>