X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:14:40 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: PLEASE TEST YOUR FS (was Re: 1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable) Message-ID: <20100426151440.GC1845@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20100407085343.GY18530@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100407170643.GF18530@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100407172659.GH18530@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100422094145.GF1845@calimero.vinschen.de> <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602DBF139B5@server03> <20100422121213.GG1845@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100422175108.GM1845@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100423084543.GC15379@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100423111258.GP1845@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100423111258.GP1845@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Apr 23 13:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I didn't like this solution at all. I just applied another patch which > handles that differently. Instead of stripping the leading spaces and > trailing dots and spaces, they now get converted the same way as > described in > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars > > So the offending dots and spaces are converted into the UNICODE private > use area instead, and transparently converted back to dots and spaces > when accessing them via Cygwin. This allows to keep the filenames > unchanged from the user's point of view. The file > > " abc ... " > > is *still* the file > > " abc ... " > > even on the broken filesystems. > > Again I tested this change on NTFS with a little tweak to the code. If > you NetApp and NWFS users please test the next developer's snapshot (the > next one after 2010-04-22), I would be most grateful. Anybody? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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