From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 112816 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2017 13:20:24 -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 111792 invoked by uid 89); 1 Mar 2017 13:20:23 -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*F:D*yandex.ru, H*M:yandex, UD:yandex.ru, H*UA:Bat! X-HELO: forward4o.cmail.yandex.net Received: from forward4o.cmail.yandex.net (HELO forward4o.cmail.yandex.net) (37.9.109.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:20:21 +0000 Received: from smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (smtp2o.mail.yandex.net [37.140.190.27]) by forward4o.cmail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id D3BF5215D7; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 16:20:18 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 3940C5080CD7; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 16:20:17 +0300 (MSK) Received: by smtp2o.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id jKXGGMD7a9-KHJaXoh1; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:20:17 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Authentication-Results: smtp2o.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; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:12:04 -0000 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:20:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <673311627.20170301161204@yandex.ru> To: cyg Simple , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath (reprised) In-Reply-To: <8fc9ac93-b764-f319-9472-c06c865197bb@gmail.com> References: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBEEB39@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <198383594.20170221210252@yandex.ru> <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBEEB6F@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net> <1016311719.20170226041358@yandex.ru> <8fc9ac93-b764-f319-9472-c06c865197bb@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-03/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 Greetings, cyg Simple! > On 2/25/2017 8:13 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> 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. >> > Not when specifying ./a:b which was the example being discussed. We were discussing "a:b", not "./a:b". -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, March 1, 2017 16:11:45 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