Odd directory created when installing 1.7

[Cliff Hones]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 28 01:45, Cliff Hones wrote:
>>. .. I installed in parallel with
>> an existing 1.5 installation, so installed with root set to C:\Cygwin1.7.
>> After the installation completed, I had a directory named "C:"
>> at the the top level of my C drive, and under it directory Cygwin1.7\dev
>> (which was empty).  dev has also been correctly created under the real
>> root.  I see nothing relevant in the install logs, nor cygcheck output,
>> though I'll gladly supply these if useful.
> 
> This is really weird.  Does the name have a "real" colon in its name, or
> does it use the replacement char in the 0xf0xx range instead?  Or, in
> other words, when you look at it with Windows Explorer, is the second
> char really a colon or just some black block or something like that?
> 
> Please send your setup.log.full file.  Maybe there is something pointing
> to this effect.

Yes, it's not a real ":" - it displays as an outline box in explorer, and
a "?" in MS command shell and Cygwin 1.5.  Not surprisingly, Cygwin 1.5
cannot interpret the directory at all - "ls -l" displays question marks
in all columns.  I tried pasting the character into wordpad (ugh)
and it recognized it as wingdings symbol value 0x3a, which fits with
the ":" I suppose.  My system is XP Pro SP3, with regional language
set to English(UK) (Extended KB).  One further possibly useful piece
of informaion - the create timestamps on the odd directories are all the
same, and 14 seconds later than the timestamp on the correct "dev" directory.

Doesn't sound like BLODA to me - though I did have Avira AntiVir Guard enabled
during the installation.

setup.log.full attached.

-- Cliff
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