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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080731154104.GN7319@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4891D4B5.6060708@users.sourceforge.net>

On Jul 31 10:05, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> | Illegal?  The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on
> | case-insensitive mounts.  Does it really occur often that you have two
> | filenames in the same dir only differing by case?
>
> For Cygwin I understand that, but you mean to say that *setup* will be
> able to install a file with a "*:<>|?  (The : is the most common case,
> usually within API docs, for obvious reasons.)

Uh oh, you got me there.  It shouldn't be ovberly complicated to tweak
the untar code in setup to do the same special char conversion as
Cygwin does, but, as usual, somebody has to do it.  Maybe I'll look
into that myself when I'm back in a couple of days.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-17 15:53 Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-18  0:18 ` Eric Blake
2008-07-18  7:33   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-18  7:53     ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-18  8:08       ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-18 12:07         ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-22 21:19           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-18 16:37 ` Marco Atzeri
2008-07-18 17:08   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-18 17:56     ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-18 18:18       ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-18 23:59         ` Brian Dessent
2008-07-19 10:15         ` Marco Atzeri
2008-07-18 19:29 ` Bill Hoffman
2008-07-19 12:24   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-19 14:16 ` Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2) Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-22 17:42   ` Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)) Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-25  8:10     ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-25 11:00       ` 1.7.0-21 broken Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-25 18:08         ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-28 14:52     ` base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2))) John Morrison
2008-07-28 15:27       ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-28 16:34         ` base-[files|password] for 1.7 John Morrison
2008-07-29  9:32           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-29 11:50             ` Eric Blake
2008-07-28 18:56         ` Pierre A. Humblet
2008-07-29  9:45           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-29 14:35             ` Pierre A. Humblet
2008-07-29 14:53               ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-29 16:24                 ` Pierre A. Humblet
2008-07-29 22:22                   ` Pierre A. Humblet
2008-07-30  9:14                     ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-28 19:00         ` base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2))) Christopher Faylor
2008-07-29 11:37         ` Eric Blake
2008-07-29 11:56           ` John Morrison
2008-07-29 12:01             ` base-[files|password] for 1.7 Eric Blake
2008-07-29 12:28               ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-29 14:31                 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-29 14:56                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-29 16:18                     ` John Morrison
2008-07-29 18:00                       ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-30  1:39                         ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-30  9:22                           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-30 15:20                             ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-30 17:39                               ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-21 23:42 ` New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-22  9:32   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-23 17:26     ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-23 18:00       ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-23 20:44         ` John Morrison
2008-07-24  9:08           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-24  9:18             ` John Morrison
2008-07-24  9:26               ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-25 10:07           ` Andrew Schulman
2008-07-24  3:45         ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-24  9:24           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-24 16:18             ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-24 17:46               ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-31  6:57 ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-31  7:39   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-31  8:28     ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-31 11:44       ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-31 13:00         ` Charles Wilson
2008-07-31 13:23           ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-31 13:31             ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-31 14:10               ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-31 20:16                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-31 15:06         ` Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
2008-07-31 15:41           ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]

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