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Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:32:12 -0400
To: linda w <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: /proc registry access
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At 07:54 PM 9/3/2004, you wrote:
>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
>>Yes. Cygwin will not process paths that contain a ":" -- perhaps
>>
>>erroneously, as it should probably check that the ":" is the second
>>character, preceded by a letter.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
>> 
>---
>   Do you think it would be desirable to have cygwin not encumber itself
>with character/filename validity, but instead let it be processed by the
>underlying subsystem (or pseudo subsystem, in this case).  Thanks for
>the MLADP.


What pseudo subsystem is that?  Win32?  

Cygwin does what it does to support POSIX path semantics while still 
providing reasonable support for Win32 path semantics.  But like Igor
said, if you have an idea to improve the handling, 
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.  Having a concrete patch always 
focuses the discussion very quickly. :-)




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