From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500C2940.8080800@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <333998685.20120722180817@mtu-net.ru>
Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Linda Walsh!
>
>> I sometimes use "rmdir *" to clean up empty dir's.
>
> There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of
> directory removal in many cases.
> I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions.
----
You are saying POSIX allows directory removal to behave
differently if it is running on Windows?
I'm not running this in explorer, or cmd.com
I'm running in bash, using rmdir.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-22 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-22 5:57 Linda Walsh
2012-07-22 14:20 ` Andrey Repin
2012-07-22 14:58 ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-22 16:24 ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2012-07-22 16:33 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-23 9:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-07-25 1:25 ` Linda Walsh
2012-07-25 12:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-07-25 20:53 ` Linda Walsh
2012-07-26 9:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-07-26 21:48 ` Linda Walsh
2012-07-27 7:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
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