Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period

Tim Prince tprince@computer.org
Fri Feb 25 22:06:00 GMT 2005


At 09:08 AM 2/25/2005, Lloyd Wood wrote:

>  a file named 'Makefile_defs.' was created by
>cvs, but eventually got packaged up as 'Makefile_defs' causing build
>errors on platforms other than Cygwin.
>
>Why does Cygwin do this?
>

Short answer:  cygwin doesn't do it, cygwin accepts Windows behavior, which 
is incompatible with linux by design.
Slightly longer answer:  you should be able to find this answered in the 
mail list archives.


Tim Prince 


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