Re: Checking out /gnumach exits with error, cause 'aux' reserved on cvsnt

[Thomas Schwinge]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:59:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Ashish Gokhale, le Sun 05 Feb 2006 19:07:17 +0000, a ?crit :
> > I checked for the error message "cvs [checkout
> > aborted]: could not chdir to gnumach/i386/aux: Invalid
> > argument"
> > I am using windows2000 to download & study the GnuMach
> > source code. It seems 'aux' is a reserved word & its
> 
> Ah... Welcome to windows' silly backward-compatibility: just try, you
> won't be able to create files names con, com1, aux, prn, etc. You should
> probably get source from a linux box and copy it to your windows box
> *after* having renamed the aux directory.

... or just get the `gnumach-1-branch', which doesn't have a directory
called `aux', which is being actually used compared to HEAD, and which is
what I suggested before, if I recall correctly.


Regards,
 Thomas