GNU bug report logs - #20119
25.0.50; tramp-test30-special-characters hangs on Cygwin

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Reported by: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 20119 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20119: 25.0.50; tramp-test30-special-characters hangs on
 Cygwin
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
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