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Re: File Naming Between Cygwin and Windows


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

> 
> On Jul 10 06:03, Ross MacGillivray wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > > 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.
> >  
> > 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?
> 
> There is no incompatibility in file naming between Cygwin and Windows.
> If KDE is using filenames which are not useable on Windows, then KDE
> is incompatibility in file naming to Windows (and Cygwin).
> 
> Corinna
> 

Yes, I agree - poor choice of words.  There is no incompatibility between
cygwin and windows.

The question I was trying to raise is:
  "Is managed mounts the most appropriate work around in Cygwin for an issue 
   which may be, admittedly, caused by KDE-on-Cygwin?"

Also as a future Cygwin service would it not make sense to have a translation
layer in Cygwin which automatically translates conformant linux/unix names into
conformant windows names.   If this is what managed mounts does, I apologize
in advance, since I am not familiar with managed mounts.

/Ross
 




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