From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 72762 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2019 17:32:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 72754 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2019 17:32:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-102.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HCc:U*cygwin, pour X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.17.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:32:20 +0000 Received: from calimero.vinschen.de ([24.134.7.25]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue106 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MRBWU-1hoJrU3R00-00NBfT; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:32:04 +0200 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id AB79CA80431; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:32:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:50:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Vince Rice Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ... Message-ID: <20190827173203.GE11632@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Vince Rice , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de> <3E262D05-F393-453A-9E43-B248DDE50812@solidrocksystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qbny/jZ57A7MvmBT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E262D05-F393-453A-9E43-B248DDE50812@solidrocksystems.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00339.txt.bz2 --Qbny/jZ57A7MvmBT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 901 On Aug 27 11:44, Vince Rice wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Houder wrote: > >=20 > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> =E2=80=A6 > >> 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). > >=20 > > .. uhm, I must be speaking to the alter ego of Corinna V,. because > > as far as I know, Corinna has given herself some time off ... Back for a couple days only :} > > Perhaps you could make an entry in her "TODO list" that the 3 lines > > above requires some more explanation for pour souls like me. >=20 > I am not Corinna, but I read that as=E2=80=A6 > The mkdir command works because it has special code added to it to make > it work. The rmdir command doesn't work because it doesn't have the same > code in it. Exactly. Corinna --Qbny/jZ57A7MvmBT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 833 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEoVYPmneWZnwT6kwF9TYGna5ET6AFAl1laRMACgkQ9TYGna5E T6COUg//RZC8DMP3MdxWqTFXQorOjx1UQZT7bhZ74zT8Qu4B+D08G61HhIleXFki GNXCVXZrc4roJvoksI3NEb2dC6D9c2BSPKVVP9rQKtxGONiQhO5TX3Ai2FHJqRor y2N6zI0LLaMnAYOoTK8Y656As1VdnOfbbBirRwJtSmlSiBzWgdEjSpy5rFEASTk3 BvvaEhS+jvN3wjzRDZ/p0CxcJiRLinrWUmMyoZqFrBKZODiidpU5m7A7zaWSJ0hh jM9K5HAiwTw8gZBnBywtobR/nTqVfy2dv+KM3R3rMv7tw5XFPVfdMLzlUHsG0jyp vNMEe7ragEcVuT0LAmPvlsZhaXhkDgd4rGPit4LTZcqyqN4bLJZNQZxmQYTyisBc ZSa/hgxEbCGpBLm39PY3DVJAGeP1X+jcBFyt9c9RP6HkHNYI2wju4/8I1gh/eoAS RMu3CSH7iifCE20DSJGQxnt+1VrR4YYji0R/oB14N2UmlmNIibMGzoDQFE2NhN7z ILn9W7xKIKGkfhhO33Vh0OTvbhaUTcsanS9C0+Se/x50/t0cflhZmOTfTf7rzxVy 5Tl7nCmGL+hj5xEn+yEVigz3YF5SSM8keDhmZB5BHG6dXsMqNqHV6n52hY2FXIrT j8GDjA+kQmQqdezvVc6SVYOc0r3dI4QVHEnZ4LSRIJayA7mmnqg= =tYtB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qbny/jZ57A7MvmBT--