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RE: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
- To: "'gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
- From: Edward Avis <EPA at datcon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:20:10 +0100
>You don't understand. Cygwin doesn't create these names; ideally, cygwin
>could make them completely unmagic.
>
>Unfortunately, the magic meaning of those names is hardcoded into Win32.
>There's no way to avoid the problem if you use Win32 APIs, which cygwin
>does.
Well... you could equally say that there's no way to make symbolic links
using the Win32 API, but Cygwin does that.
IMHO it would be a good idea to map filenames like "con" and "aux" to
_con and _aux. Not a very pretty solution, but at least it would let
things like aux.sh in Perl work properly.
>The MS POSIX subsystem doesn't have trouble with those names because it is
>implemented on top of the native NT API and doesn't use Win32 to open files.
I thought Win32 _was_ the NT API. Does this mean the POSIX subsystem
won't run on 95?
--
Ed Avis
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