Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Authenticated: #789199
From: "Stefan Schuerger" <stefan DOT schuerger AT gmx DOT de>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Path problems with trailing dot
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 00:41:14 +0200
Message-ID: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAA9qlOdnHM3EGvlIpcXSWiJ8KAAAAQAAAAB4H/ACBmmUuuyUsddSpBHAEAAAAA@gmx.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; 	charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0
X-IsSubscribed: yes

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?

Regards,

Stefan Schuerger



--
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/