Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:42:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names Message-ID: <20010405144208.A28383@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010405112848.03e55210@ks.teknowledge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010405112848.03e55210@ks.teknowledge.com>; from rschulz@teknowledge.com on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:38:14AM -0700 On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:38:14AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Hi, > >I just discovered some odd behavior. > >Witness: > >% mkdir dir >% cd dir >% ls -l >total 0 >% echo "I like Cygwin" >|File >% ls -l >total 0 >-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File >% >% ls -l File. >-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File. >% >% ls -l File.. >-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File.. >% >% ls -l File... >-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File... >% >% ls -l File.... >-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File.... >% >% diff File File. >% diff File. File... > > >Curious, no? Perhaps this is a side-effect of the potential aliasing of >suffix-less names and the same name with a ".exe" suffix? It's windows behavior. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple