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Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:55:43PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> Thomas Wolff wrote: >> >>>> ... >> Anyway, maybe some syntax could be found that would not be too harmful >> to become "reserved" for this purpose... >> <end:of:rationale:for:weird:feature> >> > > Sorry but I agree with Corinna. On linux/UNIX you can create a file > with a colon in it. We can now do this in Cygwin 1.7 and that's a good > thing. Complicating the path handling to deal specially with colons in > a filename doesn't sound like a good idea to me. > Sorry that I take this up once more (after promising <end:of>), but I had this additional idea after seeing your point about being strictly consistent with the POSIX pathname namespace: So what about using "/" as a delimiter? If "foo" is a file, "foo/bar" is not a legal pathname in POSIX, so it could be used to access the "bar" fork of "foo" without causing real harm. There might be stronger objection to implicitly creating a fork with this syntax than to just accessing it, which could be resolved with either a $CYGWIN-configurable option or a mkfork command. Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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