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Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars
On Dec 4 09:29, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:09:05PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Dec 2 20:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to create a file (on NTFS) with a CR in the name and getting
> > > > ENOENT; is it possible for this to work (without a managed mount)?
> > >
> > > Welcome to Windows. None of these non-portable characters are
> > > supported in filenames except in managed mounts.
> >
> > Just to push the point a bit, note the words "non-portable".
>
> I did do a bit of looking around before posting, and saw the *?/\<>|:"
> characters mentioned in several places, but not the 0-0x1f characters.
> Now, I've looked more and see those officially verboten as well.
> (Though I also saw a page that documents how 8.3 filenames are formed
> and seems to say that the *?/\<>|:" characters *are* possible in NTFS
> filenames.)
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;117258
> is interesting...
This is certainly interesting. Using this in Cygwin would require to
change the path handling to using UNICODE, though, which is a major
undertaking since the path handling throughout Cygwin is plain ASCII
right now.
Corinna
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