On Jun 4 08:41, Peter J. Acklam wrote: > I tried creating a file named " foo ", i.e., with two leading and > two trailing blanks using "touch". It turned out that "touch" > created the file, but without the two trailing blanks. It might > be that a file name with trailing blanks can't be created on an > NTFS file system, but "touch" shouldn't create the wrong file but > rather give an error telling that it failed. Silently creating > the wrong name is generally bad:
That's exactly what Windows does. Trailing spaces and dots are silently ignored. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
