X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:34:16 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5 and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed Message-ID: <20091116163415.GD20652@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <26363833 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <416096c60911151427g12cc5582t6d9bbdc063c5b14a AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <4B013E09 DOT 1010209 AT towo DOT net> <20091116120650 DOT GH29173 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4B01462A DOT 3080400 AT towo DOT net> <416096c60911160532j2c49cd7ftb79fcc7295f9be21 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20091116135644 DOT GK29173 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4B01639C DOT 8000403 AT towo DOT net> <4B0167EF DOT 8030807 AT towo DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B0167EF.8030807@towo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:55:43PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: >Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> ... >>> Or, just for kicks, try to create a file "abc:def:ghi" under 1.5 or, >>> FWIW, under CMD. >> Well, I wanted to withdraw my arguments when I read this but then I >> simply tried in 1.5 and it worked quite well... >Where I visually mistook the second ":" for a "." however... (blush). >Anyway, maybe some syntax could be found that would not be too harmful >to become "reserved" for this purpose... > Sorry but I agree with Corinna. On linux/UNIX you can create a file with a colon in it. We can now do this in Cygwin 1.7 and that's a good thing. Complicating the path handling to deal specially with colons in a filename doesn't sound like a good idea to me. cgf -- 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