From: Kandziora Jan <Jan.Kandziora@ts.siemens.de>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F536EC3453B2D411AD6100508BAF5F9901FAB404@bwga521a.ts.siemens.de> (raw)
Hello,
there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any
number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the
end at all. E.g.
echo Hello >a
echo World >a....
results in a single file a, containing "World". The file can be accessed
with the name "a" and also "a." etc.
Moreover, one can mkdir a directory named "xyz", and use it with any number
of dots at the end.
mkdir xyz
cd xyz.....
pwd gives now "(...) /xyz....."
I wonder if you intended it to work like this or if it's a bug.
Jan Kandziora
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From: Kandziora Jan <Jan.Kandziora@ts.siemens.de>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: 1.3.4: Filenames ending with a dot
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F536EC3453B2D411AD6100508BAF5F9901FAB404@bwga521a.ts.siemens.de> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011111082600.FTLxHK8VvTEyYoB99QmHH5tByuCGL5Ja3uyGtG3UAiw@z> (raw)
Hello,
there may be a problem with cygwin's handling of filenames: Files with any
number of dots at the end are referred to be the same with no dots at the
end at all. E.g.
echo Hello >a
echo World >a....
results in a single file a, containing "World". The file can be accessed
with the name "a" and also "a." etc.
Moreover, one can mkdir a directory named "xyz", and use it with any number
of dots at the end.
mkdir xyz
cd xyz.....
pwd gives now "(...) /xyz....."
I wonder if you intended it to work like this or if it's a bug.
Jan Kandziora
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next reply other threads:[~2001-11-12 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-01 8:11 Kandziora Jan [this message]
2001-11-01 9:23 ` Tony Arnold
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Tony Arnold
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Kandziora Jan
2001-11-01 10:02 Fergus
2001-11-11 8:26 ` Fergus
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