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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup and colons in filenames
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fc169c8-91ca-b125-5d0a-70f5760046b9@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d23c2ef6-d33e-236e-cc95-fdf75fbbc2ae@cornell.edu>

On 26/10/2017 18:04, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/26/2017 12:14 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> 
>> I'm kind of tempted to remove this mis-feature.
> 
> I agree strongly.  I was about to write an email suggesting the same 
> thing when I saw your mail.  Unless you're already working on it, I'll 
> be glad to prepare a patch series that does this and also takes care of 
> whatever is needed for supporting colons in installed.db

Please do so.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-26 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-25 15:50 Ken Brown
2017-10-25 19:23 ` Jon Turney
2017-10-25 20:16   ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-25 20:36     ` Jon Turney
2017-10-25 21:00       ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-26 16:14         ` Jon Turney
2017-10-26 16:14   ` Jon Turney
2017-10-26 17:04     ` Ken Brown
2017-10-26 17:20       ` Jon Turney [this message]
2017-10-26 17:42     ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-26 17:49       ` Jon Turney
2017-10-26 18:25         ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-27  8:47           ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-27 10:40             ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-27 13:44               ` Jon Turney
2017-10-27 15:20                 ` Ken Brown
2017-10-27 16:28                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-27 13:43           ` Jon Turney

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