From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118399 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2019 17:54:31 -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 118392 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2019 17:54:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Spam-Relays-External:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:54:30 +0000 Received: from vsmx001.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.191]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38638C0378 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Rainer.invalid (unknown [84.160.192.162]) by mta-5-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0EFAC300667 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:54:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ... References: <20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:48:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49 +0200") Message-ID: <8736hm7aun.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 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. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra -- 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