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Re: Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: "cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:32:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: Patch to allow trailing dots on managed mounts
- References: <0I8S00MOZDF18J@pmismtp01.mcilink.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:04:13PM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote:
>This patch is as trivial as I could get to allow trailing
>dots to be used on a managed file system.
>
>Unfortunately, my company will not sign the waiver,
>so I cannot sign up for any significant changes to
>the cygwin sources. So, hopefully, this patch is
>small enough to squeek under the limit, or it can be a
>starting point for discussions on how to fix the original
>problem.
>
> * path.cc (path_conv::check): retain trailing dots and
> spaces for managed mounts.
Er, this patch apparently just leaves the trailing dots in the
"converted" path, bypassing the loop which attempts to remove them.
That's not the way to do this. Sorry.
cgf