trailing spaces in 1.7.0

[Eric Blake]

According to Corinna Vinschen on 5/13/2008 5:53 AM:
> 
> I can easily fix that, it's a two-liner.  However, that raises the
> question if it's the right thing to do.  Is it really necessary to
> convert trailing dots and spaces?  Is it really a problem if Win32
> applications can't access these files?  I'm a bit unsure if that's
> not too indulging...
> 

Once you've gone the route of a trailing dot or slash, your file is 
already hard to open in Win32 (how do you convince notepad, for example, 
to open a file with the invalid unicode character 0xf020?).  It's true 
that once 'tdir ' existed, I couldn't use Explorer to delete it, while I 
could use Explorer to delete 'tdir\uf020'.  But I don't generally use 
Explorer to delete files created by cygwin.  So I don't care whether the 
space and dot are munged, or used unchanged, so long as cygwin can 
consistently create and access such files and directories, and that they 
are distinct from their counterpart without trailing dots/spaces.  If not 
munging the trailing space/slash works, and is slightly faster, then feel 
free to go for it.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net