[RFC] Fix problems related to Mingw/DJGPP file names containing colons
DJ Delorie
dj@redhat.com
Sat Aug 13 20:51:00 GMT 2011
> But there might be some 'exotic' file systems that allow
> both double-quotes and colons as valid characters in their
> filenames.
Any unix-like OS supports that:
$ touch 'foo"bar:grill'
-rw-r--r-- 1 dj games 0 Aug 13 16:46 foo"bar:grill
The only two characters you *can't* put in a file name or subdirectory
name are the NUL character and possibly '/' (I've seen ways to make
filenames with / in them). Every other character is 100% legal.
> I am wondering how spaces within filenames are handled
> inside GDB on mingw32...
> I just tested... No very well :(
Any unix-like OS also supports spaces in filenames!
$ touch 'foo bar'
-rw-r--r-- 1 dj games 0 Aug 13 16:47 foo bar
These are not new problems, nor are they dos/windows specific.
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