Path problems with trailing dot

[Larry Hall]

At 06:41 PM 5/15/2005, you wrote:
>Today I noticed with streamripper that Cygwin appears to have a problem
>with trailing dots in paths:
>
>> mkdir test. ; echo > test./test2
>bash: test./test2: No such file or directory
>
>The trailing dot disappears and cannot be used in paths. This seems to
>be a DOS legacy of either NTFS or Windows.
>
>Is there anything in the queue to fix this?


In the queue?  Kind of.  Check out managed mounts:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount>



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