Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 16 14:59:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:55:48AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Here is an untested patch.
>I hope Mark can test it (on managed and unmanaged mounts,
>including basenames consisting entirely of dots and spaces)
>and possibly make adjustments, without having to file the 
>paperwork.
>
>Pierre
>
>	* path.cc (path_conv::check): Do not strip trailing dots and spaces.
>	* fhandler.cc (fhandler_base::open): Strip trailing dots and spaces.

Is it correct to assume that only fhandler_base::open cares about
trailing dots?

cgf



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