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Re: File Naming Between Cygwin and Windows
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:28:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: File Naming Between Cygwin and Windows
- References: <loom.20050709T065404-647@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 9 05:03, Ross MacGillivray wrote:
>
> I am trying to access via a cygwin application a file called kdeinit-127.0.0.1:0.
> The filename is generated within the software, so it is not trivial to change
> the file name in the file access via the file system.
>
> However the underlying Windows file system does not accept colons (:), so the
> file is actually called kdeinit-127.0.0.1_0.
>
> How does cygwin deal with characters not accepted by the windows file system
> such as colon(:). Does it translate these characters automtically in file
> system calls?
Usually it chokes, like the underlying OS. As a workaround you'll
find so called "managed mounts", which only work on fresh created
directories so managed mounts are no general solution.
Corinna
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