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Subject: Re: find(1) assertion for folder with a sub-folder named `x:'
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On Jun 19 17:55, Haojun Bao wrote:
> hi, 
> 
> Here's a test case to make find(1) assertion:
>     
>     mkdir no-such-dir/foo/bar: -p
> 
>     #this will not assert
>     find no-such-dir/  
> 
>     mkdir no-such-dir/foo/c: -p

I think the right answer here is "don't do that".  Don't create files or
directories starting with a single character, followed by a colon.  The
problem is that a path starting with "X:" is treated as an absolute
Win32 path.

Right now you cannot have both.  Either a path starting with "X:" is
treated as Win32 path, or Cygwin must stop handling Win32 paths at all
and only allow POSIX paths.  


Corinna

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