On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:21:51 -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 03:48 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote: >>Running strace pointed me to the proper place to look >>for the error. >> >>However, the proper fix is maybe more of a philosophy >>issue. >>
>No, they need to be removed. Windows behavior is to ignore one or more >'.'s at the end of a file so we're stuck with that in normal Cygwin-working >mode. I actually haven't delved into the inner workings of the managed >mount option code but if there's going to be a place to hang onto and >translate the trailing '.'s, it would be in this special case code. Without >looking at more than just the patch lines, I'm guessing that the patch you >made (submitted to the Cygwin patches list) to path_conv::check() are >going to be in too generic of a spot to be the right thing to do for just >managed mount mode, though I could be wrong. I'll try to find a minute >tonight to comment further. I am going to have to disagree with you on this point. If you are going to have a truly managed filesystem, then it needs to handle all characters, and not arbitrarily remove/drop any characters. Consider the trivial tar file I've attached. Each README file will contain the directory heirarchy under which it can be found. The tar file was created on a SunOS box, but should be portable. Now, if you arbitrarily drop the trailing dots, you will wind up with less than half of the README files, which for a real application, could be a badness. > >-- >Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com >RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX >Holliston, MA 01746
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