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Re: "/" in filename confuses handling of spec. chars on non-managed mount
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:16:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: "/" in filename confuses handling of spec. chars on non-managed mount
- References: <4714C9F3.8000706@chello.hu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 16 16:25, ?rsek L?szl? wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57".
>
> If I try to create a regular file with a colon (:) in its name, cygwin
> refuses it with ENOENT (rightly so):
>
> $ echo test >"a:b"
> -bash: a:b: No such file or directory
a:b is win32 speak for file b in the current working directory of
drive a:
> However, if I put, in addition, a slash in the name:
>
> (
> set -e -C -x
>
> mkdir test
> df -m test
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=1024 >'test/a:b'
> df -m test
> ls -lsn 'test/a:b'
> ls -lsn test
> )
test/a:b is win32 speak for a stream b of file a in the directory test.
http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/alternate-streams.phtml
Corinna
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