Re: cvs

["Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

':' is an illegal character for file names on windows.  Your best bet is
to pursuade the gnome folks to change the name of that file.  It's
possible you could create a gdb/config/.cvsignore file that somehow
specifies ':0' as a file to be ignored.  But I don't know the syntax for
that...

--Chuck


Lothan wrote:
> 
> I'm using Cygwin 1.1.6 (full install from scratch using the setup tool) on
> Windows 2000 SP1 and am attempting to check out the gnome sources from
> :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome. Everything was working well
> until it got to the gdm folder, at which point it stopped with the error
> unable to rename "gdm/config/.new.:0" to ":0". This brought up an
> interesting problem because bash (ls -al) could not see any files in the
> config directory even though Windows Explorer clearly showed a file named
> ".new.". Even funnier is that neither bash, Windows Exploroer nor a windows
> command prompt could delete this file; and neither bash nor Windows Explorer
> could remove the directory (Explorer complained that it couldn't read the
> source file or the disk). I finally managed to get the directory deleted
> from a Windows command prompt.
> 
> lothan@LOTHAN2 ~/test
> $ ls -a
> .        ..       .new.    a.exe    test.c   test2.c
> 
> lothan@LOTHAN2 ~/test
> $ ls -al
> ls: .new.: No such file or directory
> total 13
> drwxr-xr-x   2 lothan   None            0 Dec 17 17:10 .
> drwxr-xr-x   4 lothan   None         4096 Dec 17 16:24 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 lothan   None        17742 Dec 17 17:10 a.exe
> -rw-r--r--   1 lothan   None          196 Dec 17 16:58 test.c
> -rw-r--r--   1 lothan   None           93 Dec 17 17:10 test2.c
> 
> I can duplicate the behavior quite easily using this code:
> 
> #include <sys/unistd.h>
> #include <sys/fcntl.h>
> 
> main()
> {
>     int f;
> 
>     /* open() also works */
>     f = creat(".new.:0", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
>     write(f, "this is a test\n", 15);
>     close(f);
> }
> 
> WARNING: run the resulting executable in an empty directory. The only way I
> can delete the file is to delete the directory from a Windows command prompt
> (rd test). I did try unlink(".new.:0") but it failed.
> 
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