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On Aug 17 09:59, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Actually, as Gareth mentioned, *Cygwin* allows colons in file names on
> managed mounts.  So, at the very least there'd be confusion of whether
> c:\\TEMP is a directory TEMP in the root of the C: drive, or a file named
> 'c:\\TEMP' in the current directory on a managed mount...

Since colons are perfectly valid characters on POSIX file systems,
there's no reason to generate a special case for Cygwin.  The problems
generated by using such filenames are identical on all these OSes.


Corinna

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