From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 67976 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2017 14:33:41 -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 67957 invoked by uid 89); 1 Mar 2017 14:33:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:723, H*f:sk:6733116, H*MI:sk:6733116, H*i:sk:6733116 X-HELO: mail-it0-f41.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f41.google.com) (209.85.214.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:33:39 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f41.google.com with SMTP id m27so8827802iti.1 for ; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 06:33:39 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=07wOqWIWwvcQ5WxYFgMBDj0N7Qj84K1slLsi4MVKyn8=; b=Zp/vFPg91Ly2wDAVo6eNpe5qySK3QUhGmcf/CpZ8xZvZjQScMM5oxHh9TDLf/sg8j+ 6jMjO+kaTUldM7XzDyri+Ta7aCl4N1pOHfLWSEXpDrsAX/Y3Zt4Wz38yl+t/zeWk37tn jzFhmnvJGhQIlQqNkzXrPPdVqhm4HBiXZ3uZs7UKBmFBNpqAhXEMzKdrEyxmxLyIJtSA u2d4B4FwMfIV5qM8gt1pWZAIr7zfdxS7r0QoWlweIlWxwexVg1fHtR8NaWjYSctorzOr 2KXgu40MDdhOz4esNBzGCfEYoU0uw/ZH2ZryxmE9c60g/+l76u0mBpUOSUDnXwiB+V6Y kZTw== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39mGiGiycq5AMBllfxfaE/XfHUX/NjD4g55vuQ8uE6e4OKnTp8WlXg8zh0WCRWTaZQ== X-Received: by 10.36.194.67 with SMTP id i64mr4821813itg.68.1488378818139; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 06:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l17sm2166830ioi.60.2017.03.01.06.33.37 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 01 Mar 2017 06:33:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: cygpath (reprised) To: cygwin@cygwin.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> <673311627.20170301161204@yandex.ru> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <91004342-5af0-a67b-5aab-b73739a538d5@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:33:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <673311627.20170301161204@yandex.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-03/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 On 3/1/2017 8:12 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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". Then you need to re-read the elided content. An example of ./a:b was given and what I responded to. -- cyg Simple -- 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