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Re: Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period

From: Tim Prince <tprince at computer dot org>
To: Lloyd Wood <l dot wood at eim dot surrey dot ac dot uk>,cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:54:53 -0800
Subject: Re: Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period
References: <Pine.GSO.4.50.0502251705450.29800-100000@argos.ee.surrey.ac.uk>

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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