From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 20119@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20119: 25.0.50; tramp-test30-special-characters hangs on Cygwin
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:39:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3so99sk.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55070302.8030607@cornell.edu> (Ken Brown's message of "Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:21:22 -0400")
Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
Hi Ken,
> This is another long-standing problem, but there's an easy fix, which
> I'll send in a second message. (I want to wait until I have a bug
> number so that I can make a proper ChangeLog entry.)
>
> The test for the file name " foo\tbar baz\t" hangs on Cygwin, because
> Cygwin interprets the backslash as a Windows path separator; see the
> section "Forbidden characters in filenames" in
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html. Here's an
> example outside of emacs:
>
> $ touch "foo\tbar"
> touch: cannot touch =E2=80=98foo\\tbar=E2=80=99: No such file or directory
"\t" shall be expanded as <TAB>. And leading (or trailing) spaces are
also not allowed in file names on w32; likely it is the same for cygwin.
I bet it is sufficient to add cygwin in the check of
tramp--test-smb-or-windows-nt-p. Could you, pls check?
> I'll send a patch shortly.
>
> Ken
Best rewgards, Michael.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-16 16:21 bug#20119: 25.0.50; tramp-test30-special-characters hangs on Cygwin Ken Brown
2015-03-16 16:37 ` Ken Brown
2015-03-16 19:05 ` Michael Albinus
2015-03-16 20:22 ` Ken Brown
2015-03-16 16:39 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2015-03-16 16:47 ` Ken Brown
2015-03-18 19:53 ` Michael Albinus
2015-03-18 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-18 21:06 ` Michael Albinus
2015-03-18 21:02 ` Ken Brown
2015-03-18 21:09 ` Michael Albinus
2015-03-16 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-16 18:56 ` Michael Albinus
2015-03-16 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-17 11:11 ` Michael Albinus
2015-03-17 12:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-17 14:46 ` Michael Albinus
2015-03-17 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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