Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050515213602.03a18150@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:36:54 -0400 To: "Stefan Schuerger" , From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Path problems with trailing dot In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 06:41 PM 5/15/2005, you wrote: >Today I noticed with streamripper that Cygwin appears to have a problem >with trailing dots in paths: > >> mkdir test. ; echo > test./test2 >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. > >Is there anything in the queue to fix this? In the queue? Kind of. Check out managed mounts: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/