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Eric Blake wrote:

<snip>

> It would be nice if cygwin could be more proactive in recognizing : as 
> invalid in non-managed mounts, rather than passing the : on to the Windows 
> filename functions, in order to avoid the creation of undeletable filenames
> such as ".new." via the help of a colon, but I can live with the current
> behavior if adding such a check would slow down the common case.

The latter affect is certainly the case here though, as usual, I'm sure
it's a PTC if someone has a great brainstorm for a way to do this without
the overhead.

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