Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period

[Lloyd Wood]

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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