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RE: 1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable


I tried the touch command and here are the results:

Drive behaving nicely:

/cygdrive/h
510 $ touch foo.


Drive behaving badly:

/cygdrive/f
511 $ touch foo.
touch: cannot touch `foo.`: No such file or directory



This looks like the culprit.

-Kevin



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:54 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: 1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable
> 
> On Apr  7 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr  6 21:06, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > > On 4/6/2010 1:33 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to change the setting of "POSIX_NO_TRUNC"?
> > >
> > > No. That symbol (accurately) describes the underlying behavior of
> the C
> > > runtime library (in this case, the new cygwin1.dll) and is defined
> in
> > > /usr/include/sys/features.h.  You really don't want to start lying
> about
> > > the behavior of your C library; that way lies madness.
> >
> > The real solution lies in Cygwin, I fear.  We probably have to add a
> > tweak to the pathname handling which reverts to good old Win32
> > compatible filenames (no leading spaces, no trailing dots and spaces)
> > when the target filesystem is Samba.
> >
> > I look into it, but maybe not for 1.7.4.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't see a problem with these filenames on Samba:
> 
>   $ touch a.b.
>   $ ls -l
>   [...]
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen       0 2010-04-07 10:36 AB2F49~0
>   $ ls -l a.b.
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen       0 2010-04-07 10:36 a.b.
>   $ rm a.b.
>   $ touch "abc "
>   $ ls -l
>   [...]
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen       0 2010-04-07 10:40 AZIJUG~1
>   $ ls -l "abc "
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen       0 2010-04-07 10:40 abc
>   $ rm "abc "
> 
> I also tested cvs, and it didn't complain about filenames with a
> dot as the 9th char.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
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