Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 16 15:09:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:59:05AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote:
>Other than the way I proposed, I'm not sure how to fix this, since the
>issue seems to be that conv_to_win32_path() needs to get the trailing
>dot in it's input argument, and check() is stripping it out.  The only
>way I can see to fix this behaviour is to leave the trailing dots in
>the string.  Maybe conv_to_win32_path needs to deal/strip with the
>trailing dots, depending upon whether it's a managed filesystem or not?

Yes, *of course* there either has to be special accommodations for
managed mounts or you have to show that your change will not affect
normal cygwin operation for non-managed mounts.

Your patch just essentially nuked most of cygwin's handling of trailing
dots.  Unless you can prove that the previous code was misguided in the
general case of non-managed mounts, doing this is obviously the wrong
solution.

cgf



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