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Re: [OT?] Strange filesystem behaviour


Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
Is there someone out there who can explain this... is it plain legacy?
If there is no better explanation, lets just have it added to the archives.

It's a DOS legacy "feature". In the old 8+3 days there was no periode in filenmaes it was automatically inserted between characters 8 and 9. Hence Win32 filesystem now remove any trailing periods.


[hack@winsat hack]$ cd tmp
[hack@winsat tmp]$ ls -las
total 0
   0 drwxrwxrwx+   2 hack     hack            0 Jun  1 16:55 .
   0 drwxrwxrwx+  10 root     None         8192 Jun  1 16:55 ..
[hack@winsat tmp]$ touch a..
[hack@winsat tmp]$ ls -las
total 0
   0 drwxrwxrwx+   2 hack     hack            0 Jun  1 16:55 .
   0 drwxrwxrwx+  10 root     None         8192 Jun  1 16:55 ..
   0 -rw-rw-rw-    1 hack     hack            0 Jun  1 16:55 a
[hack@winsat tmp]$

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden, 59~14'N, 17~12'E. >17~C avg/d now.
~ <=> degree


--
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Hack Kampbjørn


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