cannot create files with trailing dots on network share
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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Thu Mar 18 23:16:00 GMT 2010
On 3/18/2010 7:03 PM, Douglas Seay wrote:
> Iâve had some problems, and it looks like it boils down to handling .
> (dot) characters. I created a little script to create some files with
> dots in various places. This script works fine in my $HOME directory
> (C:\cygwin\home\SEAYD). The name is wrong when the last character of the
> filename is a dot and subdir is on a network share (H: in this case).
> The rest of the file operations seem to work because when I cat them,
> you can see the file name inside the body (yes, I left of the \n).
Please *attach* (*not append*) the cygcheck output as requested by:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
We also need to know the server type (Windows, Linux, netapp, etc),
service type (SAMBA, NFS), and file system type (NTFS, FAT, something
else) of the shared directory.
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A: Yes.
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>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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