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Subject: Re: `touch' created wrong file without giving error
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From: pjacklam AT online DOT no (Peter J. Acklam)
Date: 04 Jun 2004 18:58:46 +0200
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> On Jun  4 08:41, Peter J. Acklam wrote:
>
> > I tried creating a file named " foo ", i.e., with two leading
> > and two trailing blanks using "touch".  It turned out that
> > "touch" created the file, but without the two trailing blanks.
> > It might be that a file name with trailing blanks can't be
> > created on an NTFS file system, but "touch" shouldn't create
> > the wrong file but rather give an error telling that it
> > failed.  Silently creating the wrong name is generally bad:
> 
> That's exactly what Windows does.  Trailing spaces and dots are
> silently ignored.

Ok.  I just expected Cygwin to behave better.  :-/

Peter

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