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Re: File Naming Between Cygwin and Windows


Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> 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
>
 
Do you know happen to know what the 'standard' solution is, when running
KDE-on-Cygwin, for this incompatibility in file naming between cygwin 
and windows?

Is it managed mounts or is there some other commonly used solution?  

/Ross






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