Corutils utilities not honoring dots in directory names.
Corutils is using the DECC RTL to translate the names from Unix to VMS.
EAGLE> set prot=o:rwed new_gnu:[project.ia64vms]11.2.0.4.0.dir
EAGLE> bash
bash-4.3$ ls -l /project/ia64vms
ls: cannot access '/project/ia64vms/11.2.0.4.0': no such file or directory
total 0
?????????? ? ? ? ? ? 11.2.0.4.0
bash-4.3$ exit
exit
EAGLE> del new_gnu:[project.ia64vms]11.2.0.4.0.dir;
EAGLE> bash
bash-4.3$ mkdir /project/ia64vms/11.2.0.4.0
bash-4.3$ ls -l /project/ia64vms
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 1 MALMBERG SYSOP 512 Apr 21 20:14 11
It turns out that this bug is triggered by enabling DECC$FILENAME_ENCODING_UTF8.