From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13905 invoked by alias); 24 May 2006 12:18:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 13895 invoked by uid 22791); 24 May 2006 12:18:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dessent.net (HELO dessent.net) (69.60.119.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 May 2006 12:17:59 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FiqsO-0007zo-3d for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Wed, 24 May 2006 10:46:04 +0000 Message-ID: <44743956.AE8719CA@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:18:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully References: <04c701c67f19$66dd7fe0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00308.txt.bz2 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