Document support for @ character in UNC paths

Wed Mar 19 10:21:40 GMT 2025

On Mar 19 04:31, Takeshi Nishimura via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 18 15:57, Takeshi Nishimura via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM Takeshi Nishimura
> > > <takeshi.nishimura.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Subject says it all, please document that @ characters in UNC paths
> > > > are now supported, for WebDAV and BeeGFS
> > >
> > > Was this ever added to the Cygwin documentation for Cygwin 3.6?
> >
> > Oops, I'm sorry, I missed that. It has been silently subsumed under
> > "Expose WebDav shares ..." :}
> >
> > But in fact, apart from supporting the at-sign in filenames, there's
> > nothing in Cygwin actually supporting BeeGFS explicitely. Does it
> > work so well that there's no reason to special-case it when checking
> > the filesystem?
>> I'm using it on a daily basis, no complaints from me. It is usable.

This is nice!
Thanks,
Corinna