-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Stefan Schuerger on 5/15/2005 4:41 PM: > bash: test./test2: No such file or directory > > The trailing dot disappears and cannot be used in paths. This seems to > be a DOS legacy of either NTFS or Windows.
Yes - Windows strips all trailing spaces and dots. So `mkdir test.' and `mkdir test' are identical in behavior in creating `test/', unless you use managed mounts (where cygwin does some magic to overcome the Windows limitations). It looks like the cygwin path-normalization code is not stripping trailing dots/spaces from non-final directory components in a non-managed path name. Care to contribute a patch? http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCiJfG84KuGfSFAYARAlwQAKCeoasW2b/ZIYbybymLf67SHUgXYQCfUJGu VwVhmVWR/e2W6+Io/75SjWE= =+App -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
