Sorry for not replying in thread - I deleted the email a little fast :p. Anyway, ':' is -not- in the POSIX portable filename character set: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/glossary.html#tag_004_000_ 207
':' as a special behaviour is not a Windows invention, it harks (in windows' case) from the VMS roots, and perhaps further back still. Secondly, solutions to handle ':' -will- involve not writing the ':' to disk, which means parsing and interpreting the filename for validity on every open, and during opendir etc. It's overhead - do we need it... Rob -- 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/
