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Subject: Re: PLEASE TEST YOUR FS (was Re: 1.7.1: cvs version   built in is       unstable)
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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

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