Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Ok. I just expected Cygwin to behave better. :-/ Peter -- Peter J. Acklam - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam -- 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/
