Re: non-unix help needed: valid filename characters?

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

I wrote:
>> ldap_config.h just tests for _WIN32 and defines LDAP_DIRSEP. There is
>> no reason to do anything beyond that. Cygwin does its own machinations
>> already and we don't know or care what they are.
>
> So MingW and Cygwin translate filenames with "forbidden characters"
> like \ to something which works on Windows?

Sorry, getting tired... I presume this falls under your previous reply,
  "Building OpenLDAP as a Cygwin app is not recommended and I see no
  reason to make any special effort to support it."

It'd be easier if I knew Windows so I knew something about what I was
talking about...

-- 
Hallvard