X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:24:20 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: edit Aux.pm under GNU emacs hangs Message-ID: <20090407102420.GX852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <22909185.post@talk.nabble.com> <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C875302FBD5C5@core-email.int.ascribe.com> <20090406161239.GA12558@trikaliotis.net> <20090406162026.GA8063@calimero.vinschen.de> <49DA549A.4090208@veritech.com> <20090406200700.GS852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090407101000.GC12558@trikaliotis.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090407101000.GC12558@trikaliotis.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On Apr 7 12:10, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > Hello again, > > * On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:07:00PM +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 6 15:14, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > > > > Can't have any files named [aA][uU][xX] dot *anything* in Windows, or > > > anything dot [aA][uU][xX]. > > > > Incorrect. This is a restriction in the Win32 API, > > This is incorrect, too. This is *not* a restriction of the Win32 API; it Ok, let me rephrase: This is a restriction of the ANSI Win32 API. > is a restriction that only applies if programs do not use the "full" > name, prepended with "\\.\". This restriction is there for backwards > compatibility for programs which do not expect the new behaviour, and > which are restricted in their path length to PATH_MAX. You meant MAX_PATH, right? The \\.\ syntax only works for actual devices. If you want to create such a file called aux.pm using the Win32 API you have to use the \\?\ syntax and the wide char functions. CreateFileA does not allow to do that, only CreateFileW. > > > On so-called 16-bit windows systems this could cause a system crash. I > > > learned this the hard way. > > > > Cygwin 1.7 doesn't support 16-bit OSes. > > Did Cygwin support any 16 bit Windows at any time? I can't remember a > Cygwin for DOS, or a Cygwin for Windows 2.03. ;) Well, no. But weren't Windows 95/98/Me only 32 bit extensions to a 16 bit OS? ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/