From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93441 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2019 17:01:30 -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 93434 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2019 17:01:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=pour X-HELO: gproxy5-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com Received: from gproxy5-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com (HELO gproxy5-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com) (67.222.38.55) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:01:28 +0000 Received: from cmgw12.unifiedlayer.com (unknown [10.9.0.12]) by gproxy5.mail.unifiedlayer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C222141B14 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:44:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from box867.bluehost.com ([69.195.124.67]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id 2eZwitT0GZRSV2eZwitALY; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:44:20 -0600 Received: from 99-106-192-34.lightspeed.ftwotx.sbcglobal.net ([99.106.192.34]:49291 helo=[192.168.1.86]) by box867.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1i2eZv-003nva-W9 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 10:44:20 -0600 From: Vince Rice Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\)) Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ... Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:32:00 -0000 References: <20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <3E262D05-F393-453A-9E43-B248DDE50812@solidrocksystems.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00338.txt.bz2 > 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 ... >=20 > 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=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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple