Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/04/30/17:54:12
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:02:21PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:45:38AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > you can create files ending with a . which are
> > not stat'able unless another file exists with the same name without
> > the dot. (and even then rm on the dotted name removes the non-dotted
> > file):
> >
> > $ cat >foo.
> > bar
> > ^D
> > $ ls -l foo.
> > ls: foo.: No such file or directory
> >
> > $ ls -l foo
> > ls: foo: No such file or directory
>
> Would it help to try multiple snapshots and see where this broke? I
> already had the 20040416 and 20040420 ones and they both fail (but
> 1.5.9 is ok)? I was really hoping for a "already fixed in CVS"
> response :), is there anything I can do to help track this down?
This is fixed by the 20040430 snapshot; thanks, Corinna
(though I wonder if it would be possible to consistently allow
filenames to end in a . on ntfs, since it seems you can actually
create separate "foo" and "foo.").
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