On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:41:18PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >2) In all other details (including restricted characters in filenames), > Cygwin uses the underlying filesystem's conventions. If we go out of > our way to be compatible with Linux in this aspect, why not also > support "aux" as the filename, or support '\' in filenames? The > argument for not doing the latter was that we don't want to > disassociate ourselves from the underlying filesystem, IIRC, so why go > back on it now?
If there was a Windows call which allowed us to easily write, read, rename, and delete special windows names, cygwin would use it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
