Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:41:55 -0400 To: Edward Avis Cc: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: Bug: '%' in filenames with B20.1 Message-ID: <19990906114155.A728@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Edward Avis , "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Edward Avis on Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:23:23PM +0100 It's a known problem in B20.1, fixed in later snapshots. cgf On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:23:23PM +0100, Edward Avis wrote: >Giving a filename ending in '%' (eg '%' or 'a%') to 'touch' crashes B20.1. >Eg 'touch "%"' from the NT cmd.exe . > >Running the command from bash - or from cmd.exe where the filename begins >with '%' but doesn't end in it - gives an error such as 'touch: %: No such >file or directory' - even if a file '%' already exists. > >I have not experimented further, other than finding a similar problem with >'cat'. I am not on this list, but I thought you might like the bug report. > >My CYGWIN=tty,binmode . > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com