Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:29:14 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with illegal characters in Pathnames Message-ID: <20010419162914.H12557@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <229D7C0FE0BED311A0E800805F0DD47176CB58@wn01ex.wn.gb.solvay.com> <002f01c0c8d4$fbc186c0$6e032bb7@BRAMSCHE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002f01c0c8d4$fbc186c0$6e032bb7@BRAMSCHE>; from Ralf.Habacker@saght.tessag.com on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:04PM +0200 On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:04PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm porting applications for Windows (using X11 and KDE) and one often > recognized problem is that application using > the content of the DISPLAY environment variable to generate filenames > directly. Under Windows character ':' and some other aren't allowed for > filenames, so this applications will fail on running. > > I've found a function "mount_info::conv_to_win32_path" in the cygwin > library. Is it possible, that this function can convert illegal filename > characters to valid ? No, it doesn't. This is a long lasting discussion and currently there's no agreement due to several pros and cons. If you really want that functionality, write your own wrapper functions which convert POSIX paths to POSIX paths minus invalid DOS chars. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple