Subject: Re: File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis is.
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: "linda w (cyg)" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: 04 Jan 2003 12:34:04 +1100

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:27, linda w (cyg) wrote:
> A bit late to the party, I know, but wanted to chime in on the Cygwin
> File::Spec discussion.  I'm 'cc'ing the cygwin list as a "heads up" for any
> interested parties.
> 
> A more satisfactory mapping is to base "Cygwin" on Win32, not Unix.
> 
> Cygwin, as an "OS interface" _partially_ supports posix mapping -- it supports
> posix naming to the same extent the underlying Win32 OS supports it -- not
> to the level Unix supports it.
> 
> For example, 
> 1) "\:" are illegal in Cygwin pathnames as they are under Win32.  Posix doesn't have this difference.

Actually, IIRC neither | or : are in the POSIX "Portable file name
character set".

Rob
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