Re: Path problems with trailing dot

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Stefan Schuerger on 5/15/2005 4:41 PM:
> 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.

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

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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