From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12208 invoked by alias); 26 Feb 2017 01:20:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12167 invoked by uid 89); 26 Feb 2017 01:20:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*UA:Bat!, H*x:Bat!, H*F:D*yandex.ru, H*M:yandex X-HELO: forward5p.cmail.yandex.net Received: from forward5p.cmail.yandex.net (HELO forward5p.cmail.yandex.net) (77.88.31.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 26 Feb 2017 01:20:08 +0000 Received: from smtp2m.mail.yandex.net (smtp2m.mail.yandex.net [77.88.61.129]) by forward5p.cmail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 30F2E2067A; Sun, 26 Feb 2017 04:20:05 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp2m.mail.yandex.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2m.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 769A72300DE6; Sun, 26 Feb 2017 04:20:04 +0300 (MSK) Received: by smtp2m.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id kDGwWGHZhW-K3q8DpcQ; Sun, 26 Feb 2017 04:20:03 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Authentication-Results: smtp2m.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru X-Yandex-Suid-Status: 1 0,1 0 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Sun, 26 Feb 2017 01:13:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 01:20:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1016311719.20170226041358@yandex.ru> To: cyg Simple , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath (reprised) In-Reply-To: References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBEEB39@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <198383594.20170221210252@yandex.ru> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBEEB6F@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00326.txt.bz2 Greetings, cyg Simple! > Also a : isn't a valid character for a name in Windows. Cygwin uses > some magic to represent it in UNICODE format though. It isn't a valid file "name" character, yes, but it is still a meaningful character in pathname under windows. Just the meaning of it is far from regular file name semantics. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, February 26, 2017 04:12:43 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple