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Re: cygwin poll
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- Subject: Re: cygwin poll
- From: fieldhouse at logica dot com (Dirk Fieldhouse)
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:14:12 GMT
How about (as an option) automagically transforming in the following fashion:
<reserved>.* <-> <automagic prefix>_<reserved>.*
eg Unix aux.sh -> Windows $_aux.sh
Provided this is done uniformly you should be able to turn it on and have otherwise cygwin-pathological Unix builds work, without encouraging people to create M$-weird files.
Obviously there is a problem of any escaping convention - what about real files with the automagic first component - but a suitably bizarre choice of prefix should effectively eliminate this problem (at least to orders of magnitude below that of filenames like aux).
Disadvantage: wouldn't help with people using (eg) WinZip to unpack a tar.gz containing aux.sh.
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