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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:14:12 GMT
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From: fieldhouse AT logica DOT com (Dirk Fieldhouse)
Subject: Re: cygwin poll
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How about (as an option) automagically transforming in the following fashion:

<reserved>.* <-> <automagic prefix>_<reserved>.*

eg Unix aux.sh -> Windows $_aux.sh

Provided this is done uniformly you should be able to turn it on and have otherwise cygwin-pathological Unix builds work, without encouraging people to create M$-weird files.

Obviously there is a problem of any escaping convention - what about real files with the automagic first component - but a suitably bizarre choice of prefix should effectively eliminate this problem (at least to orders of magnitude below that of filenames like aux).

Disadvantage: wouldn't help with people using (eg) WinZip to unpack a tar.gz containing aux.sh.

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