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Re: Path problems with trailing dot
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Stefan Schuerger" <stefan dot schuerger at gmx dot de>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:36:54 -0400
- Subject: Re: Path problems with trailing dot
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At 06:41 PM 5/15/2005, you wrote:
>Today I noticed with streamripper that Cygwin appears to have a problem
>with trailing dots in paths:
>
>> mkdir test. ; echo > test./test2
>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.
>
>Is there anything in the queue to fix this?
In the queue? Kind of. Check out managed mounts:
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount>
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