Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2005 10:19:34 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Path problems with trailing dot
Message-ID:	<20050516141934.GD15318@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References:	<!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA9qlOdnHM3EGvlIpcXSWiJ8KAAAAQAAAAB4H/ACBmmUuuyUsddSpBHAEAAAAA AT gmx DOT de> <428897C6 DOT 5050508 AT byu DOT net>
Mime-Version:	1.0
In-Reply-To:	<428897C6.5050508@byu.net>
User-Agent:	Mutt/1.5.8i

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/

- Raw text -