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Subject: | RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 |
Date: | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:17:52 +0100 |
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On 17 August 2006 10:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:35:51 +0200 >> From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu> Eli, we have a tradition of snipping email addys on this list: http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR if you could please! >>> Windows doesn't allow colons anywhere else in file names anyway. >> >> That's not quite right. Colons are also used in file names when the >> file name denotes an alternative named stream on NTFS file systems. > > Right, I forgot about this obscure feature. > > However, this feature is not specific to Cygwin, so if support for > such names is important (I suspect it isn't, but that's me), GNU Make > should be modified to support them in all Windows ports; any solution > that is good for other Windows ports will be good for Cygwin, and vice > versa. Do you agree? Well, aren't there also quote a lot of Linux systems with ntfstools these days? It's not even just a windows feature necessarily. But why on earth anyone would put a makefile in an ADS I couldn't imagine. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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