From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 19463@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19463: 25.0.50; Files with special chars in the name cannot be written on MS Windows
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:37:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837fxajtu3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw66a1q7.fsf@gmx.de>
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:56:48 +0100
>
>
> The following problem I have observed when running tramp-tests.el on MS
> Windows. It isn't a Tramp problem, 'tho.
It's a basic documented limitation of the file APIs, at least on the
level that Emacs on Windows uses them. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
(look under "Naming Conventions").
> Files with special characters in their file name cannont be written
> locally. The following test is derived from tramp-test30-special-characters.
> Note, that this testcase runs w/o problems under GNU/Linux.
This is expected. What exactly do you want us to do with this issue?
Unless we radically change the way we do file I/O (similarly to what
Cygwin does), which is a very large job, this issue cannot be
resolved.
We simply should not use such file names on Windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-29 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-29 15:56 bug#19463: 25.0.50; Files with special chars in the name cannot be written on MS Windows Michael Albinus
2014-12-29 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-29 21:55 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-30 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-30 8:29 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-30 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-30 17:38 ` Michael Albinus
2015-01-31 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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