20040422 snapshot and filenames ending with . (was: Re: errors using DB_File perl module under 20040422 snapshot)

Tue Apr 27 10:20:00 GMT 2004

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:40:02PM +0200, "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> Hallo Yitzchak,
>> Am Sonntag, 25. April 2004 um 21:16 schriebst du:
>> > It seems to be creating files that cygwin cannot thereafter open.
>> > $ perl -we'use Fcntl; use DB_File; tie %h, "DB_File", "bugaboo",
> > O_RDWR()|O_CREAT(), 0666 or die "error: $!"'
> > Name "main::h" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
> > error: No such file or directory at -e line 1.
>> The same here.
>> > $ ls *bugaboo*
> > ls: __db.bugaboo.: No such file or directory
>> $ ls *bugaboo*
> __db.bugaboo
>> No problem here.
>> > $ rm *bugaboo*
> > rm: cannot remove `__db.bugaboo.': No such file or directory
>> $ rm *bugaboo*
>> No problem here. Hmmm.
>> > 2526k 2003年10月07日 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cygperl5_8_1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> > "cygperl5_8_1.dll" v0.0 ts=2003年10月7日 10:14
> > 2524k 2003年10月30日 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cygperl5_8_2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> > "cygperl5_8_2.dll" v0.0 ts=2003年10月30日 14:15
> > 2524k 2004年01月08日 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cygperl5_8_3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> > "cygperl5_8_3.dll" v0.0 ts=2004年1月8日 5:06
> > 2643k 2004年04月22日 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cygperl5_8_4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> > "cygperl5_8_4.dll" v0.0 ts=2004年4月21日 20:47
> > 2562k 2003年10月31日 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cygperl5_9_0.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> > "cygperl5_9_0.dll" v0.0 ts=2003年10月30日 16:23
> > 2671k 2004年02月29日 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cygperl5_9_1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> > "cygperl5_9_1.dll" v0.0 ts=2004年2月29日 0:57
> > 2694k 2004年04月20日 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\cygperl5_9_2.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
> > "cygperl5_9_2.dll" v0.0 ts=2004年4月19日 20:22
>>> Which Perl are you using right now;)

:) None of those; I'm using your binary distribution of 5.8.2.

> I have still an older snapshot version of cygwin running here:
> $ uname -r
> 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2)

And you get the ENOENT error?
> Maybe you use another version of perl, or it is s.th. different with
> the behaviour of cygwin in 1.5.10.

It (the file ending in . and the DB_File tie failure) only happens for
me on the snapshot, not on 1.5.9.
This doesn't seem to have anything to do with perl; further
experimentation shows you can create files ending with a . which are
not stat'able unless another file exists with the same name without
the dot. (and even then rm on the dotted name removes the non-dotted
file):
$ cat >foo.
bar
^D
$ cat foo
cat: foo: No such file or directory
$ cat foo.
bar
$ ls -l foo.
ls: foo.: No such file or directory
$ ls -l foo
ls: foo: No such file or directory
$ cat>foo
baz
^D
$ ls -l foo.
-rw-r--r-- 1 sthoenna None 5 Apr 27 01:43 foo.
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 sthoenna None 5 Apr 27 01:44 foo
$ cat foo.
bar
$ cat foo
baz
$ rm foo.
$ ls -l foo*
ls: foo.: No such file or directory
$ cmd /c 'dir foo*'
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 7422-45EE
 Directory of C:\cygwin\home\sthoenna
04/27/2004 01:43 AM 5 foo.
 1 File(s) 5 bytes
 0 Dir(s) 13,487,009,792 bytes free
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