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 Message-ID: <008201c33030$3c375ad0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: Subject: Re: colons with rsync Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:43:41 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Cam-ScannerAdmin: mail-scanner-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk X-Cam-AntiVirus: Not scanned X-Cam-SpamDetails: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I did manage to create a file called ':saved' (on NTFS). It didn't show > up in directory listings (simple 'ls'), but did in an explicit 'ls > :saved'. I also could write to it and read from it, so I'm not sure > exactly where or how the file was created ('mv :saved ./Zsaved' said "mv: > cannot move `:saved' to a subdirectory of itself, `./Zsaved'", so I'm > guessing Win2k got pretty confused). 'rm :saved' worked, though. I think the data went into a named stream attached to the directory you did these tests in. That would be consistent with the mv error. Max. -- 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/