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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