From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc3df101ab93c20b86c3ab7fa7d3ea4f@xs4all.nl>
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On Aug 27 14:51, Houder wrote:
> L.S.,
>
> # note: cygdrive has been remapped to /drv at my place
>
> 64-%% uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Seven 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 Cygwin
> 64-%% mkdir /drv/e
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/drv/e’: Permission denied
>
> 64-@@ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Seven 3.1.0(0.340/5/3) 2019-08-19 10:13 x86_64 Cygwin
> 64-@@ mkdir /drv/e
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/drv/e’: File exists
>
> Different error report (which was the objective of Ben Wijen):
>
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2019-q2/msg00136.html
>
> Now, let's play:
>
> 64-@@ cygpath -w /drv/e
> E:\
>
> 64-@@ mkdir 'e:\' # creates subdirectory e: !!!!!
> 64-@@ rmdir 'e:\' # fails, because it refers to /drv/e
> rmdir: failed to remove 'e:\': Directory not empty
>
> 64-@@ rmdir 'e:'
>
> Yes, I should NOT use "DOS paths" ...
>
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32
>
> However, I wonder why e:\ is interpreted by mkdir as e:, and as
> /drv/e (that is as e:\) by rmdir.
>
> Any reason for this remarkable difference?
mkdir(2) has some special code from 2009 which drops trailing
{back}slashes to perform a bordercase in mkdir Linux-compatible.
This code snippet doesn't exist in rmdir(2).
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-27 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 15:25 Houder
2019-08-27 16:28 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2019-08-27 17:01 ` Houder
2019-08-27 17:32 ` Vince Rice
2019-08-27 17:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-28 7:16 ` Houder
2019-08-28 9:22 ` john doe
2019-08-28 11:47 ` Houder
2019-08-28 13:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-28 14:16 ` Eric Blake
2019-08-28 14:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-28 15:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-29 15:19 ` Houder
2019-08-30 8:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-30 12:42 ` Houder
2019-09-01 17:38 ` Houder
2019-09-02 8:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-09-03 8:40 ` Houder
2019-09-03 6:50 ` Andrey Repin
2019-09-19 19:51 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-20 9:11 ` Houder
2019-09-20 18:20 ` Houder
2019-09-21 16:07 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-22 7:34 ` Houder
2019-09-22 14:12 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-07 3:47 ` L A Walsh
2019-08-27 19:48 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-27 20:58 ` Brian Inglis
2019-08-28 7:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-27 22:21 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-28 13:36 ` Eric Blake
2019-08-28 22:57 ` Houder
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