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Re: [Bug-tar] file name with backslash is not archived


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] file name with backslash is not archived
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:47:50 -0700
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On 11/02/10 13:18, Eric Blake wrote:
> This won't work in cygwin - there, \ and / are synonymous for directory
> separators, and 'touch src/\' will successfully touch the directory src.

But that's still OK, no?  The code will ignore
the failure, and the rest of the test should still work.
(The test doesn't keep track of the file names for whic
"touch" succeeds; it merely relies on whatever files
happen to get created.)



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