On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > <snip> > > > It would be nice if cygwin could be more proactive in recognizing : as > > invalid in non-managed mounts, rather than passing the : on to the > > Windows filename functions, in order to avoid the creation of > > undeletable filenames such as ".new." via the help of a colon, but I > > can live with the current behavior if adding such a check would slow > > down the common case. > > The latter affect is certainly the case here though, as usual, I'm sure > it's a PTC if someone has a great brainstorm for a way to do this > without the overhead.
Well, normalize_posix_path() (in path.cc) already scans the whole path string looking for '\\' -- I can't imagine that adding a check for ':' would introduce all that much overhead. But, of course, empirical evidence is always best, and I don't have any at the moment. Eric, care to simply add a test for ':' in that loop and do some measurements? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/