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Re: cygwin poll
- To: gmurray at webwayone dot demon dot co dot uk, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cygwin poll
- From: "Emanuele Aliberti" <ealiberti at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:23:50 CET
>Is POSIX not just as valid as Win32 within Windows NT? In which case,
>if Windows tools barf at valid POSIX filenames (which are also valid
>under NTFS) then surely it is the tools which are broken.
Yes, it is, but the Win32 file naming conventions and rules are a proper
subset of the POSIX naming conventions; therefore there are POSIX names
which have no mapping in Win32 and Win32 tools fail when handling them.
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