Protected Stow Directory

"้ก”็„กใ—" <[email protected]> Sun, 7 May 2017 06:56:51 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.stow.bugs
Message-ID <20170507105651.GD4463@creation>
Hello and thank you for developing Stow.  I just began using version 2.2.2 with Perl v5.24.1 and noticed the stow directory name is not allowed to begin with a period (e.g. ".stow" as opposed to "stow").  Stow gives an error that reads "WARNING: skipping protected directory ." and immediately aborts operation.  Is this intended behavior?  If so, what is the rationale?  I was unable to find any mention of "protected" directories in the man/info pages.

Take care.

Grady