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Subject:	Re: cannot create files with trailing dots on network share
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On Mar 18 19:03, Douglas Seay wrote:
> I?ve had some problems, and it looks like it boils down to handling
> . (dot) characters.  I created a little script to create some files
> with dots in various places.  This script works fine in my $HOME
> directory (C:\cygwin\home\SEAYD).  The name is wrong when the last
> character of the filename is a dot and subdir is on a network share
> (H: in this case).  The rest of the file operations seem to work
> because when I cat them, you can see the file name inside the body
> (yes, I left of the \n).
> 
> Is there a known work around for this?
> 
> >/cygdrive/h/foo> ./fubar
> >mkdir subdir
> >create subdir/none
> >create subdir/in.middle
> >create subdir/.before
> >create subdir/after.
> >create subdir/.every.where.
> >finished successfully
> 
> >/cygdrive/h/foo> ls -al subdir
> >total 5120
> >drwxr-xr-x+ 1 ???????? ????????  0 2010-03-18 18:31 .
> >drwxrwxrwx  7 ???????? ????????  0 2010-03-18 18:31 ..
> >-rwxr--r--  1 ???????? ????????  7 2010-03-18 18:31 .before
> >-rwxr--r--  1 ???????? ????????  6 2010-03-18 18:31 ARO60A~X
> >-rwxr--r--  1 ???????? ???????? 13 2010-03-18 18:31 _IQDF8~T
> >-rwxr--r--  1 ???????? ????????  9 2010-03-18 18:31 in.middle
> >-rwxr--r--  1 ???????? ????????  4 2010-03-18 18:31 none
> 
> >/cygdrive/h/foo> cat subdir/ARO60A~X
> >after./cygdrive/h/foo> cat subdir/_IQDF8~T
> >.every.where./cygdrive/h/foo>

I assume H: is a Samba share?  It's a feature of Samba to massage
filenames which can't be read or created by Win32 clients, and according
to Win32 filename rules, trailing dots and spaces are not allowed in
filenames.


Corinna

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