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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Message #55 received at 20119 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20119 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kbrown <at> cornell.edu
Subject: Re: bug#20119: 25.0.50;
 tramp-test30-special-characters hangs on Cygwin
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:06:15 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 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 :-(

I read when you had written that text, but (acc to my wife) I'm
forgetting everything. Sorry for that!

Cygwin seems to be different, for example trailing spaces are not a
problem. And, as you might see in tramp--test-special-characters,
several other special characters in file names work for Cygwin, which
are not valid for Windows.

Best regards, Michael.
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