On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:37:32 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:23:56AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote: >>Which is why I did what I did. If you look, my patch allows for >>checking to see if "............................." was entered as an >>argument, and throws the exception if it was. THEN, if that is not the >>case, it passes the FULL name to conv_to_win32_path to allow for proper >>demangling rules.
>What you did was clear. It was only a two line change, after all. >Unfortunately, you seemed to assume that all the work that cygwin went >through to figure out that trailing dot stuff was just useless and that >the rest of cygwin will work just fine with files containing trailing >dots regardless of whether the file is managed or not. That is not the >case. The point of the section of code that you patched was not just to >"throw the exception" it was to strip off the trailing dots. Then I guess I'll have to wait for a fix to come down, since the amount of work to fix this will probably be more than I can put in without a waiver. >cgf