On Dec 12 08:17, Brian Dessent wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > but I don't think we should ever go down the path of blithely creating files > > with special characters by default. > > Now, now... what better way to embrace WJM at its finest than for Cygwin > to randomly and inexplicably litter stray "CON" or "you can't delete me > . . . " files all over the place that steadfastly refuse to be deleted > by any windows tools?
I tried this when I introduced the usage of NtCreateFile, but for some reason other developers catched it and actually dared to FIX it. May a thousand hippos fall on them! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
