From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44743956.AE8719CA@dessent.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04c701c67f19$66dd7fe0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
Dave Korn wrote:
> Well, the /real/ problem about those files (which matched DOS special device
> names) was that you couldn't remove them from cygwin either; not being able to
> delete them from the very same command shell where you created them is far
> worse than having to use the same tool to delete something that you used to
> create it.
You can create and delete them fine from Cygwin using the native path
(touch '//?/c:/nul') but that wasn't very intuitive.
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-24 12:18 UTC|newest]
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2006-05-24 10:05 ` Dave Korn
2006-05-24 12:18 ` Brian Dessent [this message]
2006-05-24 12:28 ` Dave Korn
2006-05-24 22:07 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
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