Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: From: Kandziora Jan To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:58:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Hello, there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the end at all. E.g. echo Hello >a echo World >a.... results in a single file a, containing "World". The file can be accessed with the name "a" and also "a." etc. Moreover, one can mkdir a directory named "xyz", and use it with any number of dots at the end. mkdir xyz cd xyz..... pwd gives now "(...) /xyz....." I wonder if you intended it to work like this or if it's a bug. Jan Kandziora -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/