From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <837fxajtu3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mw66a1q7.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419871099 17426 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2014 16:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19463@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 29 17:38:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dKd-0004cZ-EQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:38:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dKc-0008CR-Nw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32932) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dKY-000899-4z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:38:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dKU-0000Tf-Jp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:38:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51075) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dKU-0000Tb-GY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:38:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dKU-0002jT-8O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:38:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:38:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19463 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19463-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19463.141987104610453 (code B ref 19463); Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:38:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19463) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Dec 2014 16:37:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60441 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dJt-0002iX-KI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:37:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:36591) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5dJr-0002iO-Bb for 19463@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:37:24 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NHC00H00RGNXN00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 19463@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:37:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NHC00H5URI8WX10@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:37:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87mw66a1q7.fsf@gmx.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:97804 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > 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.