Subject: bug#20119: 25.0.50; tramp-test30-special-characters hangs on Cygwin

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:47:45 -0400

On 3/16/2015 12:39 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:

Hi Michael,

> "\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.

In the context of file names on Cygwin, "\t" is not expanded to <TAB> 
because of the special treatment of the backslash.  But leading and 
trailing spaces are fine; see my patch.
>
> I bet it is sufficient to add cygwin in the check of
> tramp--test-smb-or-windows-nt-p. Could you, pls check?

It's sufficient but not necessary.

Ken