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SFTP server when / is c:\
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: SFTP server when / is c:\
- From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw at staff dot crosswalk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:44:08 -0400
SFTP server has some unfortunate logic that occurs when you try to ls, get,
or put things in root (/). It's got logic all over the place that creates
paths that start with "//". Cygwin doesn't like to deal with these kind of
paths. <grin> This causes ls, get, and put (at least) to not work in /.
When you do an ls (for example) sftp server creates pathnames to pass back.
It does this by combining the path + "/" + filename. This works great as
long as the path doesn't includes a final /, which it normally doesn't.
However, when you switch to / the path is / (obviously). The ls would then
end up coming back with things like //., //.., //cygwin.bat, etc.
Seems that unix machines deal with these double slash paths, but cygwin
doesn't? Am I on track here. Either way, I'm wondering which direction is
the best to attempt a patch with. Patch sftp-server.c in lots of spots, or
cygwin in (?) spots?
Mark
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