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: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190828064620.GH11632@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0dd2f7d8-f07e-b53f-91fd-1edc0fd11199@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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On Aug 27 14:37, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2019-08-27 11:54, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >> 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).
> >
> > While we're discussing oddities, creating symbolic links in the virtual
> > /dev directory still works and those links show up in the real
> > (underlying) Windows directory as well. This is why the Bash
> > postinstall still works and I'm not sure if it should do that the way
> > it's written.
>
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices
> lists the process devs, "udevs", and NT mappings, and specifies that the /dev
> directory is real to allow symlinks like cdrom/dvdrw -> sr0/scd0 and
> gps0/pps0/gpspps0 -> ttyS0.
>
> I notice /dev/kmsg documented but no longer appears, but /dev/log[=] exists if
> syslog-ng is running; and /dev/pipe and /dev/fifo are mentioned but don't exist.
Some of this is old cruft. But hey, documentation fixes are just as
welcome as code fixes ;)
Corinna
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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
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 [this message]
2019-08-27 22:21 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-28 13:36 ` Eric Blake
2019-08-28 22:57 ` Houder
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