This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
RE: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
- To: jazz at opennt dot com
- Subject: RE: phantom file "aux" under bash b19
- From: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 23:36:49 +0200 (METDST)
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
Hi Jason, you wrote:
: Unfortunately, the magic meaning of those names is hardcoded into Win32.
: There's no way to avoid the problem if you use Win32 APIs, which cygwin
: does.
Really? Although I haven't tried it, several people already wrote on this
list that the workaround is using UNC \\.\ prefix!
Sorry, I've no time for integrating that transparently into cygwin DLL!
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".