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Re: `touch' created wrong file without giving error
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:22:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: `touch' created wrong file without giving error
- References: <vfi74yfy.fsf@online.no>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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.
Corinna
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