From: Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Could rm remove files and folders with colon in their name?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:40:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c0bd10d2f8adbe2066fb21dc5ce1b09@plebeian.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YYwuGBM5JCXoMxZF@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 2021-11-10 3:39 pm, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> To the contrary. The problem is the ambiguity that "X:/foo" might
> be either the absolute POSIX path $CWD/X:/foo, or the absolute DOS
> path "X:\foo". I have a patch which fixes your case, but not much
> else. The problem is that we historically allow DOS paths as input
> at all. That was a bad decision from the start, but you can't easily
> change 25 years of history...
To contribute my 2 cents, native support for DOS paths is invaluable for
me. Changeing that would break a lot of Windows/POSIX integration.
The simple fix for all weird/ambiguous names is to qualify it with
`./...`.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-24 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-10 9:45 Mario Emmenlauer
2021-11-10 13:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-10 20:24 ` Mario Emmenlauer
2021-11-10 20:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-11-11 14:00 ` Mario Emmenlauer
2021-11-24 15:40 ` Chris Wagner [this message]
2021-11-10 14:49 ` Andrey Repin
2021-11-10 16:35 ` Brian Inglis
2021-11-10 20:23 ` Mario Emmenlauer
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