Re: 1.19 check fails on cygwin

[Marco Atzeri]

Thanks Alex,


I will package bypassing this literal name in the test

Regards


On 21.02.2023 20:50, Alexander Jones wrote:
> ASCII 0x2D is a hyphen, but ed doesn't actually escape it (on GNU/Linux 
> either). Commenting out the cleanup code shows that the created file has 
> the literal name "\x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile", which is illegal on 
> Windows (as it contains a backslash).
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:01 PM Marco Atzeri 
>
>     Dear Developers,
>
>     testing ed-1.19...
>     *** The script /pub/devel/ed/tmp/ed-1.19/testsuite/w.ed exited
>     abnormally ***
>     tests failed.
>
>     the full content of tmp is
>
>     $ cat /pub/devel/ed/tmp/ed-1.19/tmp/w.log
>     \x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile: No such file or directory
>
>
>     I am not familiar with this escape "\x2dhyphen\x2dprefixed\x2dfile"
>     what is the expectation on Unix system ?
>
>
>     Regards
>     Marco
>
>     ed packager for Cygwin