Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/03/26/15:10:10
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > It would be nice if cygwin could be more proactive in recognizing : as
> > invalid in non-managed mounts, rather than passing the : on to the
> > Windows filename functions, in order to avoid the creation of
> > undeletable filenames such as ".new." via the help of a colon, but I
> > can live with the current behavior if adding such a check would slow
> > down the common case.
>
> The latter affect is certainly the case here though, as usual, I'm sure
> it's a PTC if someone has a great brainstorm for a way to do this
> without the overhead.
Well, normalize_posix_path() (in path.cc) already scans the whole path
string looking for '\\' -- I can't imagine that adding a check for ':'
would introduce all that much overhead. But, of course, empirical
evidence is always best, and I don't have any at the moment.
Eric, care to simply add a test for ':' in that loop and do some
measurements?
Igor
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