On Apr 22 19:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 22 14:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Thank you. Oh well. When trying to open the file to check for its > > existance, the NT status code is STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND which is > > equivalent to the POSIX errno ENOENT, "No such file or directory". > > > > Only afterwards, when trying to create the file, the status code is > > STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID. Too late for Cygwin. > > I've just applied a patch which is supposed to fix this problem. > > The core component which evaluates a file and performs basic checks now > handles the case STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND specially. It checks if > the filename has leading spaces and/or trailing dots and spaces. If so, > it checks the filesystem. If it's one of the known FSes with broken > (aka DOS-only) path handling, it removes the offending leading spaces > and trailing dots and spaces and tries again. > > So this: > > $ touch " abc ... " > > will create the file > > " abc ... " > > for instance on NTFS or FAT, but it will create the file > > "abc" > > on NetApp, NWFS and other filesystems recognized as CIFS (but not Samba). > > This behaviour is equivalent to the behaviour in native Win32 > applications and in Cygwin 1.5. > > While I tested the patch, I had to fake a detail to make it work on > NTFS. I have no access to one of the broken filesystems myself, so > a bit of testing under real-life conditions would be quite helpful. > > So I'd like to urge all users who could reproduce the aforementioned > problems to test the *next* Cygwin DLL from the Cygwin Developer > Snapshots URL http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and report back if it works > or if it doesn't. *If* it doesn't work, please report the FS and > describe the scenario. > > Oh, hey, the cvs problem which started this thread would be quite a > nice test.
The patch is available in the latest snapshot from 2010-04-22. 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
