X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Message-id: <4BA2B3E0.9050804@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:14:40 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cannot create files with trailing dots on network share References: <4BA2B127.4080308@emc.com> In-reply-to: <4BA2B127.4080308@emc.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 3/18/2010 7:03 PM, 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). Please *attach* (*not append*) the cygcheck output as requested by: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html We also need to know the server type (Windows, Linux, netapp, etc), service type (SAMBA, NFS), and file system type (NTFS, FAT, something else) of the shared directory. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple