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Bug 235624

Summary: Running from a UNC drive behaves like a shared install
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Component: Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2)Assignee: Platform-Update-Inbox <platform-update-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: mober.at+eclipse
Version: 3.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: obsolete

Description Pascal Rapicault CLA 2008-06-04 11:38:05 EDT 
RC2-classic
When I run eclipse installed on a UNC path, it behaves like a shared install thus creating another configuration location.
Interestingly, if the install in the UNC path is writtable, it ends up creating the new folder in the install. For example my install in in \\foo\bar\eclipse and I have folder called "bar/eclipse" created in this install folder.
Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2011-11-10 05:06:07 EST 
Has this ever been reproduced on recent Eclipse, or has it been fixed by now ?

UNC has been around for so long that I claim end users just expect it to work. I'm not aware of any application that can't create / open documents on UNC or launch from an UNC path.
Comment 2 John Arthorne CLA 2012-07-24 10:22:07 EDT 
The Eclipse Update component is no longer under development, and no longer exists in the Eclipse Platform 4.x stream. If this problem still occurs in Eclipse Platform 4.2 or later, please enter a new bug report against Equinox p2.