Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:45:55 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Weird wget behaviour Message-ID: <20030411164555.GA6789@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:56:39AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: >> > Marko Daris wrote: >> > > I'm using cygwin's wget (1.8.2) to mirror some web sites... I found an >> > > url which stops (cygwins) wget: >> > > wget http://www.uga.edu/ethnobot/Con.html >> > Oh, oh, I think I know what it is! I bet it's because basename of the >> > local filename is called "CON". That's a reserved word in Windows. It >> > means console. >> That would explain gettong the contents on screen, but not the hanging, >> would it? >> rlc > >It might, actually. I suspect stat() & co are a bit broken with respect >to special names (e.g., con, prn, and others). I doubt it. Maybe wget noticed that con.html existed and tried to read something from it. cgf -- 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/