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Date: | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:16:43 +0200 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: "/" in filename confuses handling of spec. chars on non-managed mount |
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On Oct 16 16:25, ?rsek L?szl? wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57". > > If I try to create a regular file with a colon (:) in its name, cygwin > refuses it with ENOENT (rightly so): > > $ echo test >"a:b" > -bash: a:b: No such file or directory a:b is win32 speak for file b in the current working directory of drive a: > However, if I put, in addition, a slash in the name: > > ( > set -e -C -x > > mkdir test > df -m test > dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=1024 >'test/a:b' > df -m test > ls -lsn 'test/a:b' > ls -lsn test > ) test/a:b is win32 speak for a stream b of file a in the directory test. http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/alternate-streams.phtml Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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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