On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> While I detest the trailing dot crap, I don't want cygwin to be inconsistent. >> I don't want ls /bin./ls.exe to fail but ls /cygdrive/c/bin./ls.exe to work. > >Assuming a normal install, the first one is c:\cygwin\bin.\ls.exe, >which would NOT fail, while the second is c:\bin.\ls.exe, which would >fail as expected (not due to dots).
Ok. Yes. I had a typo. If /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin./ls.exe works, then /bin./ls.exe should also work. Or, both should fail. "consistent" >>I'm not sure that it makes sense for ln -s foo "bar." to actually >>create a file with a trailing dot on a non-managed mount either. That >>seems to expose an implementation detail of the way links are handled >>and it seems inconsistent to me. > >Perhaps, but nobody has complained about it over the years! And, until now, no one has complained about the current behavior for months! >> If we are "fixing" this (I firmly believe that the code in path_conv is never >> really going to be right) then I don't want to add inconsistencies. > >I agree that path_conv is never going to be "right". I would >not reduce functionality nor open new holes merely to reduce >inconsistencies due to Windows. And there we disagree. cgf
