findutils still broken

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 21 18:24:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:59:11PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Eric Blake
>>Sent: 21 April 2005 18:40
>
>> Contrary to your statement, /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/ is a
>> valid directory name (but you sure have to be careful with shell quoting
>> to actually get there).
>
>
>  Only on a managed mount.  You simply cannot create a filename with a * in
>it under windows, no matter how carefully you quote it (read 'even if you
>pass a string with a * in it to CreateFile).

The whole /proc filesystem is an invention.  There is no managed about it.
There is no reason that I can think of why windows limitations should apply
to it.

But, as usual, this speculation about what could possibly be going wrong is
easily solved by just refraining from treating cygwin as a black box and
looking at the sources.

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