X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=MNAGypKt2iJ/h/tm4PqpPTXdP4kGCS5JTSET7UxQG/G bqsZXGDadATQ7eiJYKcC7gZttnCd6QRGsopBmePNl5E08s+sEEUe7v8ysio9eB09 BW7KYRIffDu/983a4RS4g+6ieB+zqqVqebDk3hsRVzNCm+OKME7ZfTnYUMHA33hc = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=XQkBgidjdxOxMctbTk5+Sm0DlPg=; b=Wj4szmCzx5Bptqbc6 +M4PlkNwyJZgMHHDOJW3sKo86rfFE2PoAY1ybq8XhP8l7aEX7UP+bjtecSaas4J9 1cmR8DrsWEOZ1I/IItqEz188WOytWmgRTD5VS10UZVC2/VfOTagA463nDDFrROkC wvz5tZ39Di1014nkRxAJMhOG4E= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Message-ID: <53471980.4090406@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:21:52 -0600 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration References: <20140410145323 DOT GB2437 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <5346B667 DOT 3040704 AT breisch DOT org> <20140410152809 DOT GD2437 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <5346E55D DOT 6020405 AT etr-usa DOT com> <20140410190424 DOT GK2437 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <5346FCF9 DOT 5000908 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: <5346FCF9.5000908@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 4/10/2014 14:20, Eric Blake wrote: > is BOUND to go wrong. The expression > > ~a/b/file > > is NOT requesting 'file' within user 'a/b's home, but 'b/file' within > user 'a's home. Excellent point. Doesn't that also argue against backslash, due to the DLL's attempts to automatically cope with DOS paths? Once you exclude all characters that neither the shell nor the DLL nor Windows will interpret specially, what's left? According to TLDP[*], nothing. Soooo....emoji? :) [*] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/special-chars.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple