On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----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
Sorry, but it's not that simple. We're discussing this in cygwin-developers now. We'll have some kind of resolution in 1.5.17. cgf -- 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/
