Re: Cygwin and x: directory

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>]

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> On Jul 12 20:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> On 07/12/2013 08:42 AM, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Cygwin and git developers,
>> >
>> > Does following scenario show signs of bugs in Cygwin and/or git?
>> >
>> > # setup git repo
>> > $ cd /tmp
>> > $ mkdir foo && cd foo
>> > $ git init
>> >
>> > # create x: directory
>> > $ mkdir x:
>> > $ ls
>> > x:
>> 
>> IMHO, this makes an interesting problem (unrelated to git):
>> Shell script prompts user for file name.
>> User enters "x:".
>> Script proceeds as follows:
>> $ mkdir tmpdir
>> $ touch tmpdir/x:
>> $ # useful work done here
>> $ rm -r tmpdir
>> rm: cannot remove `tmpdir/x:': No such file or directory
>> rm: cannot remove `tmpdir': Directory not empty
>> $

> That's a problem of how recursive rm works.  It chdir's into 
> the subdirs it's working on and then calls "x:" which is recognized
> as drive prefix of a windows path.

Or a file stream with empty name.
Which isn't allowed either, AFAIK.

> `rm ./x:' works as expected.

>> It would seem that touch and rm are following different
>> rules regarding how files may be named.

> No.


> Corinna



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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.07.2013, <23:42>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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