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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:48:36 -0700
From:	Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Is there any reason that a managed mount can't treat backslash like it
does for non-printing characters, rather than treating it as an alternate
spelling of a directory separator?  True, there isn't much use in naming a
file "foo\\bar", as distinct from the directory/file pair "foo/bar", but
this is a remaining incompatibility with Unix file systems, where `touch
foo\\bar' actually creates a file rather than complaining because
directory foo doesn't exist.

Also, it appears that PATH_MAX, as defined in /usr/include/limits.h (at
259, barely larger than the 256 required by POSIX), applies to the
underlying Windows name and not the length of the cygwin POSIX-style name.
 This is rather weird in managed mounts, where in a deep enough hierarchy,
the filename abcd is valid but ABCD causes an ENAMETOOLONG.  By the way,
how come /usr/include/limits.h does not define NAME_MAX (required to be at
least 14)?

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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