On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:19:34AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>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.
Btw, recent snapshots should cause test./test2 to be equivalent to test/test2 . This will be the behavior 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/
