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Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2
On Jul 31 10:05, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> | Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on
> | case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two
> | filenames in the same dir only differing by case?
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> For Cygwin I understand that, but you mean to say that *setup* will be
> able to install a file with a "*:<>|? (The : is the most common case,
> usually within API docs, for obvious reasons.)
Uh oh, you got me there. It shouldn't be ovberly complicated to tweak
the untar code in setup to do the same special char conversion as
Cygwin does, but, as usual, somebody has to do it. Maybe I'll look
into that myself when I'm back in a couple of days.
Corinna
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