From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Moving on to another "non-portable" problem, I want to create a file > with a space at the end of the name, but cygwin is stripping spaces. > Despite the comment in the code, this does seem to be allowed (though > I suspect it may be via NtCreateFile only, since windows commands > don't seem to handle filenames with spaces at the end well). I tried > this:
Windows strips trailing spaces and dots (unless the file name consists only of spaces). You need a managed mount to preserve those; otherwise "foo ", "foo.", "foo. . . . ", "foo", and a bunch of other spellings all refer to the same file. Unlike in the other case (non-portable characters, which POSIX allows an implementation to reject), the stripping of trailing '.' from filenames is a violation of POSIX, but since Windows is the culprit, cygwin cannot avoid it (except with the overhead of managed mounts). -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
