From: Haojun Bao <baohaojun@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: find(1) assertion for folder with a sub-folder named `x:'
References: <83k5381ra3.fsf@gmail.com> 	<20090619101927.GV5039@calimero.vinschen.de> 	<5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C875303AF2A42@core-email.int.ascribe.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:40:44 +0800
In-Reply-To: <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C875303AF2A42@core-email.int.ascribe.com> 	(Phil Betts's message of "Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:39:06 +0100")
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"Phil Betts" <Phil.Betts@ascribe.com> writes:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jun 19 17:55, Haojun Bao wrote:
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > Here's a test case to make find(1) assertion:
>> >
>> >     mkdir no-such-dir/foo/bar: -p
>> >
>> >     #this will not assert
>> >     find no-such-dir/
>> >
>> >     mkdir no-such-dir/foo/c: -p
>> 
>> I think the right answer here is "don't do that".  Don't create files
>> or directories starting with a single character, followed by a colon.
>> The problem is that a path starting with "X:" is treated as an
>> absolute Win32 path.
>> 
>> Right now you cannot have both.  Either a path starting with "X:" is
>> treated as Win32 path, or Cygwin must stop handling Win32 paths at all
>> and only allow POSIX paths.
>
> Just to underline what Corinna said, consider the consequences of 
> the following:

Corinna said, right now I can't have both, so maybe in the future:-). I
think Cygwin can stop handling Win32 paths since we already have
cygpath, so if one want to `rm -rf c:/',  one can simply write 
    rm -rf `cygpath -au c:/`
or simply
    rm -rf /cygdrive/c

Sometimes mixing Win32/Posix paths is good, sometimes it's bad. And
things are a bit different now in cygwin-1.7 since chars like
`:' in a filename are allowed.


>
> mkdir -p foo/c:
> cd foo
> rm -rf c:/
>
> In case you can't see why that's bad, DON'T TRY IT!!  Don't even copy 
> it, because you will accidentally paste it into a terminal window, you 
> will get to say "oopsy!" [1], and you will hurt your forehead on
> your keyboard.
>
> If you can't resist the temptation, do invite friends round to watch;
> you'll have a humorous shared memory for later in life.  Also consider
> videoing it, and getting a friend to post it on YouTube for you.

Haha, I'm from mainland China, and our goverment established GFW (Great
Fireuck-wall of WWW), also known as Golden Shield Project, and YouTube
has been blocked for several months. Pretty pathetic eh?


>
>
> [1] See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/03/bofh_2008_episode_32/
>
>
> Phil

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