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Re: PLEASE TEST YOUR FS (was Re: 1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable)
On Apr 23 13:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I didn't like this solution at all. I just applied another patch which
> handles that differently. Instead of stripping the leading spaces and
> trailing dots and spaces, they now get converted the same way as
> described in
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars
>
> So the offending dots and spaces are converted into the UNICODE private
> use area instead, and transparently converted back to dots and spaces
> when accessing them via Cygwin. This allows to keep the filenames
> unchanged from the user's point of view. The file
>
> " abc ... "
>
> is *still* the file
>
> " abc ... "
>
> even on the broken filesystems.
>
> Again I tested this change on NTFS with a little tweak to the code. If
> you NetApp and NWFS users please test the next developer's snapshot (the
> next one after 2010-04-22), I would be most grateful.
Anybody?
Corinna
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