From: Vince Rice <vrice@solidrocksystems.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E262D05-F393-453A-9E43-B248DDE50812@solidrocksystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a47cc167b725c08e6f1c914166fabcaf@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net>
> On Aug 27, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Houder wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> …
>> 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).
>
> .. 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 ...
>
> Perhaps you could make an entry in her "TODO list" that the 3 lines
> above requires some more explanation for pour souls like me.
I am not Corinna, but I read that as…
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-27 17:01 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
2019-08-27 17:01 ` Houder
2019-08-27 17:32 ` Vince Rice [this message]
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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