On 4/4/2010 11:01 AM, crosmun_will...@emc.com wrote: > The _POSIX_NO_TRUNC variable is defined in cygwin 1.7, and not defined in > cygwin 1.5, so in cygwin 1.7, the code goes down the path where the > temp_filename is the first 9 characters of the original filename preceded by > '.new.' The problem occurs when the 9th character in the filename is a dot. > Eg, 'abcdefgh.txt'. The temp_filename becomes '.new.abcdefgh.' > Unfortunately, when checking out to a Samba share, or other network shares > that try to be CIFS compatible, a trailing . is invalid in a filename. The > temporary file either doesn't get created, or gets created but with the > trailing dot truncated. The checkout then fails with 'file not found' errors. > > A simple fix would be to add a valid character after the .9s, eg > > sprintf (temp_filename, ".new.%.9s~", filename); > > Can something like this be done and a new package released?
Thanks for the report and suggestion. I'll include a suitable change in the next release, but it may be a few weeks before I can get to that. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
