On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:18:22PM -0400, David E Euresti wrote:
>But maybe the correct test for Win32ness is if it's a letter followed by a
>colon. Or if the colon is the 2nd letter in the name. That way colons
>can be used later.
That wouldn't work too well with things like "com1:" or "null:"
Indeed Cygwin thinks that because the name has a colon it's a win32 path.
In mount_info::conv_to_win32_path
/* An MS-DOS spec has either a : or a \. If this is found, short
circuit most of the rest of this function. */
if (strpbrk (src_path, ":\\") != NULL || slash_unc_prefix_p (src_p
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:11:40PM -0400, David E Euresti wrote:
>Allright let's escape the colon
>
>$ mount c: /blah\:drivec
>mount: warning - /blah:drivec does not exist.
>
>$ cd /blah\:drivec
>bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory
>
>$ cd /blah:drivec
>bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No suc
Allright let's escape the colon
$ mount c: /blah\:drivec
mount: warning - /blah:drivec does not exist.
$ cd /blah\:drivec
bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory
$ cd /blah:drivec
bash: cd: /blah:drivec: No such file or directory
$ umount /blah\:drivec
umount: /blah:drivec: Invalid a
> -Original Message-
> From: Gilgamesh Nootebos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 3:25 PM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Re: umount doesn't umount
>
>
> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > ':'s on NTFS allow alternate st
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> ':'s on NTFS allow alternate streams. Read up on that before
> speculating, and please remember that a single test case (your local
> test) only shows the results for that exact configuration.
>
I just refreshed my memory with
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:12:04AM +0200, Gilgamesh Nootebos wrote:
> David E Euresti wrote:
>
> >
> >I think it doesn't like the colon. Any ideas?
> >
>
> W2K PRO NL shows this:
>
> D:\temp>mkdir foo:bar
> De mapnaam is ongeldig.
>
> Which is Dutch for: "The directory name is invalid"
Whew.
> -Original Message-
> From: Gilgamesh Nootebos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:12 AM
...
':'s on NTFS allow alternate streams. Read up on that before
speculating, and please remember that a single test case (your local
test) only shows the results for that ex
David E Euresti wrote:
>
> I think it doesn't like the colon. Any ideas?
>
W2K PRO NL shows this:
D:\temp>mkdir foo:bar
De mapnaam is ongeldig.
D:\temp>
Which is Dutch for: "The directory name is invalid"
IIRC a ':' is only valid when adressing a Drive and cannot be used in
Directory nam
At 06:49 PM 5/16/2002, David E Euresti wrote:
>Anybody know why this happens?
>
>$ mount c: /blah:c
>mount: warning - /blah:c does not exist.
>
>$cd /blah:c
>
>$ cd /blah:c
>bash: cd: /blah:c: No such file or directory
>
>$mount
>C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>C:\cygwin\lib on /u
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