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Subject:	RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin
Date:	Thu, 11 May 2006 16:18:04 +0100
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On 11 May 2006 16:11, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> On 11 May 2006 16:00, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>> 
>>>>   Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facilities of the
>>>> Windows O/S, for the most part.
>>> 
>>> Yes, and that leads to some funny behavior -- see below.
>> 
>>> Interestingly enough:
>>> 
>>> $ echo "BLAH" > a:b
>>> bash: a:b: No such file or directory
>> 
>>   Perhaps you forgot to put a floppy in the drive?
> 
> Gee, you think so? :-)

  Hmmm... let's try....

dk AT rainbow /test/ads> echo "blah" > a:b
bash: a:b: No medium found
dk AT rainbow /test/ads>

  OK, I think I get it now.  Let me re-word my observation:

>>   Perhaps you forgot to put the floppy drive in?

> The point I was making was that Windows isn't consistent about treating
> filenames as streams vs. disk references, due to the reuse of the ':'
> character.  I'm guessing it would be possible to add streams to a file
> called 'a', but not through the interfaces used by Cygwin.

  Gee, you think not?  :-)

dk AT rainbow /test/ads> echo "blah" > ./a:b
dk AT rainbow /test/ads> ls -la a
-rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain Users 0 May 11 16:16 a
dk AT rainbow /test/ads>


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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