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From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis@xerox.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Cygwin and x: directory
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:45:00 -0000
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On 07/12/2013 08:42 AM, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
>
> Hi Cygwin and git developers,
>
> Does following scenario show signs of bugs in Cygwin and/or git?
>
> # setup git repo
> $ cd /tmp
> $ mkdir foo && cd foo
> $ git init
>
> # create x: directory
> $ mkdir x:
> $ ls
> x:

IMHO, this makes an interesting problem (unrelated to git):
Shell script prompts user for file name.
User enters "x:".
Script proceeds as follows:
$ mkdir tmpdir
$ touch tmpdir/x:
$ # useful work done here
$ rm -r tmpdir
rm: cannot remove `tmpdir/x:': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `tmpdir': Directory not empty
$

It would seem that touch and rm are following different
rules regarding how files may be named.

--Ken Nellis

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