X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Eli Zaretskii To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <20060817093551.GD20467@calimero.vinschen.de> (message from Corinna Vinschen on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:35:51 +0200) Subject: Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81 Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <6.2.3.4.2.20060815151104.0b40e260@pop.nycap.rr.com> <01b901c6c116$21259430$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816091525.0ab90af0@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060816144110.GX20467@calimero.vinschen.de> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816111421.0b446b60@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060816155054.GY20467@calimero.vinschen.de> <6.2.3.4.2.20060816144036.09695af0@pop.nycap.rr.com> <20060817093551.GD20467@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:46:39 -0400 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:35:51 +0200 > From: Corinna Vinschen > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > > > Windows doesn't allow colons anywhere else in file names anyway. > > That's not quite right. Colons are also used in file names when the > file name denotes an alternative named stream on NTFS file systems. Right, I forgot about this obscure feature. However, this feature is not specific to Cygwin, so if support for such names is important (I suspect it isn't, but that's me), GNU Make should be modified to support them in all Windows ports; any solution that is good for other Windows ports will be good for Cygwin, and vice versa. Do you agree? -- 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/