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Den 2010-04-08 00:37 skrev John P. Rouillard:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:27:00 +0200 Corinna Vinschen asked:
>> Can anybody reproduce this problem with trailing dots and spaces in
>> filenames on other filesytems than netapp?
>>
>> It would be quite helpful to get feedback from people using filesystems
>> which are recognized by Cygwin as nwfs, unixfs, mvfs, or cifs.
>>
>> For testing, try to create *in Cygwin* a file called "foo." and a file
>> " foo ".  If it works, and if a following `ls' and `rm' on the file
>> works as well, everything's fine.  If some error occurs, especially "No
>> such file or directory", then that filesystem probably requires special
>> handling just like netapp.
>
> Well it sort of worked.
>
> cd'ed to //fileserver/common/group/sysops
>
>> touch foo
>> rm foo
>> touch " foo  "

Two spaces before the end-quote here...

>> rm " foo "

...but only one here, which...

> rm: cannot remove ` foo ': No such file or directory

*snip*

> Slightly wierd it failed initially and then started to
> behave.

...explains this.

Cheers,
Peter

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