20040422 snapshot and filenames ending with . (was: Re: errors using DB_File perl module under 20040422 snapshot)

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:04:14PM +0200, "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> Yitzchak wrote:
> >> I have still an older snapshot version of cygwin running here:
> >> $ uname -r
> >> 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2)
> 
> > And you get the ENOENT error?
> 
> When issuing the perl command, yes.
> BTW, this happens also with cygwin-1.5.5 in the same way:
> 
> $ uname -r
> 1.5.5(0.94/3/2)
> 
> gerrit@ismene ~
> $ perl -we'use Fcntl; use DB_File; tie %h, "DB_File", "bugaboo",O_RDWR()|O_CREAT(), 0666 or die "error: $!"'
> Name "main::h" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
> error: No such file or directory at -e line 1.
> 
> $ ls *bugaboo*
> __db.bugaboo

This is on FAT, where DB_File has known problems, right?  Works for me
on NTFS for any cygwin release dll 1.5.5 through 1.5.9.

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