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: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:38:49 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: aux.c special name? Message-ID: <20011112223849.T2618@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011112152302.068ffc18@lnxmain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011112152302.068ffc18@lnxmain>; from roland@steeltorch.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:27:22PM -0500 On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:27:22PM -0500, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > I can't seem to edit any files named "aux.c" . Why is this happening to me? > Steps to reproduce: > > echo "weidness" > aux.c > vi aux.c --> "aux.c is not a file" > > similar results with other editors / operations. > the "file" command reports it as character special device? > This is weird and poses difficulty porting packages that have an aux.c file. Windows "feature". Same for other DOS special device names as e.g. "com" or "prn". Once I asked the maintainers of a package to rename the aux.c file to something which doesn't clash with Windows weirdness and they actually did it. Thanks to the OpenSSH maintainers! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/