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Re: [PATCH] t3703: skip more tests using colons in file names on Windows

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2011, 10:44 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 08:22, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> -test_expect_success 'a file with the same (long) magic name exists' '
>> -     : >":(icase)ha" &&
>
> ":foo" is the name of an alternate data stream on the current directory.

Ah, right. Forgot about that "feature". For some reasons, Cygwin does not allow use of alternative data streams on "." or "" (zero-length string).

> Therefore, the test passes. This is on Windows XP with NTFS.
Same here, just under Cygwin.
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