From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12816 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2000 12:51:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (HELO sunsite.auc.dk) (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Dec 2000 12:51:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 9813 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2000 12:51:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13271 Received: (qmail 9806 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2000 12:51:24 -0000 Sender: simond@informix.com Message-ID: <3A38C1C0.D2F1B119@informix.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:49:04 +0000 From: Cosmo Organization: Transact Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrej Borsenkow CC: ZSH workers mailing list Subject: Re: Patch posted to SourceForge for zsh on cygwin References: <000801c065cb$37db0180$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > I think it should be discussed here. > > The patch checks for $HOME being single slash when processing startup files to > avoid creating `//.zshrc' name that is interpreted as UNC name. > So, I ask - should we commit this patch that does not actually solve the > problems or just warn users against setting HOME to `/'? Just a thought. Would setting HOME to `/..' be any kind of workaround? It should point to the same place as `/' but I don't know enough about any internal processing that would possibly optimise a path of `/../' to `//'? Cosmo