I tried the touch command and here are the results: Drive behaving nicely:
/cygdrive/h 510 $ touch foo. Drive behaving badly: /cygdrive/f 511 $ touch foo. touch: cannot touch `foo.`: No such file or directory This looks like the culprit. -Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:54 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: 1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable > > On Apr 7 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 6 21:06, Charles Wilson wrote: > > > On 4/6/2010 1:33 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote: > > > > Is it possible to change the setting of "POSIX_NO_TRUNC"? > > > > > > No. That symbol (accurately) describes the underlying behavior of > the C > > > runtime library (in this case, the new cygwin1.dll) and is defined > in > > > /usr/include/sys/features.h. You really don't want to start lying > about > > > the behavior of your C library; that way lies madness. > > > > The real solution lies in Cygwin, I fear. We probably have to add a > > tweak to the pathname handling which reverts to good old Win32 > > compatible filenames (no leading spaces, no trailing dots and spaces) > > when the target filesystem is Samba. > > > > I look into it, but maybe not for 1.7.4. > > I'm sorry, but I don't see a problem with these filenames on Samba: > > $ touch a.b. > $ ls -l > [...] > -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 0 2010-04-07 10:36 AB2F49~0 > $ ls -l a.b. > -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 0 2010-04-07 10:36 a.b. > $ rm a.b. > $ touch "abc " > $ ls -l > [...] > -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 0 2010-04-07 10:40 AZIJUG~1 > $ ls -l "abc " > -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 0 2010-04-07 10:40 abc > $ rm "abc " > > I also tested cvs, and it didn't complain about filenames with a > dot as the 9th char. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin > to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > 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 > -- 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
