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Re: File Naming Between Cygwin and Windows


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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