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

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Package: emacs;

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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 20119 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kbrown <at> cornell.edu
Subject: bug#20119: 25.0.50; tramp-test30-special-characters hangs on Cygwin
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:10:57 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:53:16 +0100
> Cc: 20119 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Your patch works fine, but I'm still curious: what happens with this
> test, if we don't pass "\t" but the <TAB> character in the file name?
> This shall work, shouldn't it?

In general, TAB characters are not allowed in file names on Windows,
but maybe Cygwin makes that possible.

P.S. I wrote in the manual, per your request, which characters are not
allowed in Windows file names, but for some reason you don't consult
that text :-(
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