Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > Windows strips trailing spaces and dots (unless the file name > > consists only of spaces). You need a managed mount to > > preserve those; otherwise "foo ", "foo.", "foo. . . . ", "foo", > > and a bunch of other spellings all refer to the same file. > > I attempted to indicate in the message above that I tried it and > succeeded in using filenames with spaces on the end (and *different* > files named the same except without the spaces). It seems this is > *not* an across-the-board Windows limitation.
This is probably a difference in the win32 API versus the native API. Brian -- 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/
