On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:19:08AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Yeah. I promised a patch, didn't I? *Sigh*.
> > Igor
> > ==============================================================================
> > 2003-08-13 Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > * path.cc (special_name): Add checks for some specials
> > followed by a "." and a FIXME comment.
>
> I leave this to Chris for obvious reasons.
>
> > + // FIXME: add com0 and {com,lpt}N.*
> > if (strcasematch (s, "nul")
> > + || strncasematch (s, "nul.", 4)
> > || strcasematch (s, "aux")
> > + || strncasematch (s, "aux.", 4)
> > || strcasematch (s, "prn")
> > + || strncasematch (s, "prn.", 4)
> > || strcasematch (s, "con")
> > + || strncasematch (s, "con.", 4)
> > || strcasematch (s, "conin$")
> > || strcasematch (s, "conout$"))
> > return -1;
>
> Clueless question: What about sth. like foo.aux?
>
> Corinna
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN745>.
"touch foo.aux" works perfectly well even on normal mounts.
I think <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC59> is wrong, though.
Igor
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