From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin and x: directory
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+kUOans72pM2FUE9v=XNK6XBkyD1JMPsy9=5Pi5kesW155wyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130715104018.GB18483@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 15 July 2013 11:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 12 20:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> 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. `rm ./x:' works as expected.
Does that mean this is a bug in Cygwin rm that ought to be fixed
(subject to SHTDI), or that it's a limitation of Cygwin rm for which
the cure looks to be worse than the symptoms?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-15 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 20:45 Nellis, Kenneth
2013-07-15 11:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-07-15 11:20 ` Adam Dinwoodie [this message]
2013-07-15 11:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-07-16 3:45 ` Andrey Repin
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