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From: "Conrad Scott" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: stat(2) wierdness
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:59:48 +0100
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This started out looking at the /proc filesystem, in particular XEmacs's
handling of the file /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/* but I got
distracted.

Basically: the handling of filenames consisting of exactly one of these
win32 reserved characters, * ? " < >, is broken in the current CVS cygwin.
This has changed between 1.3.10-1 and the current release. (nb this is in
the standard filesystem, not the /proc filesystem.)

For example, stat(2) succeeds for filenames containing of a single * ? " <
or >, claiming that they are directories. (It correctly rejects filenames of
a single | and I'm ignoring \ and : since I'm unclear what should happen
with these anyhow.) These were all rejected in 1.3.10-1.

This gives lovely wierdness if you try something like:
$ cp /etc/passwd '*'
cp: cannot create regular file `*/passwd': No such file or directory

After this little diversion, back to XEmacs wierdness.

// Conrad