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Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period
- From: Lloyd Wood <l dot wood at eim dot surrey dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:08:32 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period
- Full-name: Lloyd Wood
- Organization: speaking for none
Hello,
I've just discovered that Cygwin does not preserve filenames ending in
a period, and treats the filenames with and without the period as
identical. This is contrary to other linux systems.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/SaVi/building-1.2/
describes the problem; a file named 'Makefile_defs.' was created by
cvs, but eventually got packaged up as 'Makefile_defs' causing build
errors on platforms other than Cygwin.
Why does Cygwin do this?
thanks,
L.
<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
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