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From: "Noel L Yap" <yap_noel@jpmorgan.com>
To: cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
cc: Cygwin@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com, Kirben@Bigfoot.Com
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:08:31 -0400
Subject: Re: special handling of special names (Was: cvs available for
	 test)
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OK, I (finally) see what the real issue is.  IMHO, since Cygwin specially
handles names like /dev/null and /dev/tty already, I see no reason why it
shouldn't specially handle names like AUX, PRN, ...

Noel


cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on 2000.08.01 12:01:18

To:   yap_noel@jpmorgan.com
cc:   Cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, Kirben@bigfoot.com
Subject:  Re: cvs available for test


Noel -
  You're missing the point. It's not the uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case
problem. It's *ILLEGAL* names like AUX, PRN, etc. Go ahead, if you want
to hang your system, create a file called 'aux' using cygwin, and then
try to access it using explorer (if you get that far)...

--Chuck


Noel L Yap wrote:
>
> I forgot to give a viable solution to the problem.  Use CVS's hooks to do a
> case-insensitive compare for new filenames to make sure they're unique.  As
for
> the CVS subdirectories,you can have them be .CVS (or whatever suits your
taste)
> by editing config.h or cvs.h (I forget exactly which one).
>
> Noel
>
> Noel L Yap
> 2000.08.01 08:27
>
> To:   cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
> cc:   Cygwin@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com, Kirben@Bigfoot.Com
> Subject:  Re: cvs available for test  (Document link not converted)
>
> That would be a really bad idea.  I use Cygwin executables on file systems
that
> can fully support upper- and lower-case filenames.
>
> Noel
>
> cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on 2000.08.01 00:38:06
>
> To:   cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, kirben@bigfoot.com
> cc:   (bcc: Noel L Yap)
> Subject:  Re: cvs available for test
>
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> >
> > --Forwarded to the list for Travis Howell <kirben@bigfoot.com>--
> >
> > Any chance of making cvs avoid/skip directory/file names not allowed
> > under
> > Windows ? one CVS I know (eggdrop1.5) uses an AUX directory so cvs under
> > cygwin fails to work with it.
> > Check out http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/6/54.ASP
> >
>
> Well, that's a filesystem issue and is really beyond the scope of what I
> was trying to do. Is it possible that cygwin's file access functions
> should transparently munge these troublesome, illegal names -- aux, prn,
> etc? Or is that a really really bad idea?
>
> --Chuck
>
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