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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Use of colon in filenames Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:02:58 -0400 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <3EA01A27.70703@nortelnetworks.com> Reply-To: IDontLikePersonalReplies@hotmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3EA01A27.70703@nortelnetworks.com> C. Brian Jones wrote: > All, > > Should attempts to create files such as "foo::bar" or "foo::bar::baz" > really cause a no such file error for 'touch', 'install', etc.? > > $ touch 'foo::bar' > touch: creating `foo::bar': Invalid argument > > $ touch 'foo::bar::baz' > touch: creating `foo::bar::baz': No such file or directory > > $ install foo bar::baz > install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz': Invalid argument > > $ install foo bar::baz::bop > install: cannot create regular file `bar::baz::bop': No such file or > directory > > Any way to get the more UNIX-like behavior? > > Brian \ / : * ? " < > | are not allowed in ms-filenames. There is no way to avoid this (without direct disk writes). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/