Path problems with trailing dot

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>According to Stefan Schuerger on 5/15/2005 4:41 PM:
>> bash: test./test2: No such file or directory
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>> The trailing dot disappears and cannot be used in paths. This seems to
>> be a DOS legacy of either NTFS or Windows.
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>Yes - Windows strips all trailing spaces and dots.  So `mkdir test.' and
>`mkdir test' are identical in behavior in creating `test/', unless you use
>managed mounts (where cygwin does some magic to overcome the Windows
>limitations).
>
>It looks like the cygwin path-normalization code is not stripping trailing
>dots/spaces from non-final directory components in a non-managed path
>name.  Care to contribute a patch?  http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI

Sorry, but it's not that simple.

We're discussing this in cygwin-developers now.  We'll have some kind of
resolution in 1.5.17.

cgf

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