warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.'

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Mar 7 17:29:14 UTC 2014


On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:19 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone
>>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem.
>>>> 
>>>> Is this something we want to support?
>>> 
>>> Yes.
>>> 
>>>> NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetBSD on many different platforms.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ?
>> 
>> Last time I looked there were only a handful. I’ll conduct a census and get a concrete enumeration of the problem…
> 
> Last time I noticed (early last year) there were 3 files ending in a dot
> and no case conflicts.  Mercurial now finds just the one file ending in
> a dot and no case conflicts (doing "hg init;hg add -q" at /usr/src).

Confirmed via regex, almost… Now there’s only one ending in dot:

./tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.

Warner



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