Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:04PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm porting applications for Windows (using X11 and KDE) and one often
> > recognized problem is that application using
> > the content of the DISPLAY environment variable to generate filenames
> > directly. Under Windows character ':' and some other aren't allowed for
> > filenames, so this applications will fail on running.
> >
> > I've found a function "mount_info::conv_to_win32_path" in the cygwin
> > library. Is it possible, that this function can convert illegal filename
> > characters to valid ?
>
> No, it doesn't. This is a long lasting discussion and currently
> there's no agreement due to several pros and cons.
>
> If you really want that functionality, write your own wrapper
> functions which convert POSIX paths to POSIX paths minus invalid
> DOS chars.
IMO, your apps are broken, not cygwin. A "portable" program should use
portable filenames. Therefore, your X11 app should mangle the DISPLAY
environment variable itself to generate an acceptable filename -- on all
supported platforms.
--Chuck
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