[RFC] Is that error mapping correct?

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Tue May 2 18:00:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:40:44AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I think you won't found something similar in UNIX. Neither
>Samba allows usage of that type of path nor NFS. You always
>have to mount. The "r" protocol family on the other hand isn't
>transparently usable. So I would plead for the Win users point
>of view: It's a file or directory path, nothing else.

Yeah, but a Windows user would get a specific error message denoting
the problem, not just "file not found".

cgf


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