From: john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b26f5382-8cb8-f1d1-713d-96cbfa929a99@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b97e4dbe952154efc68412540514ae81@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net>
On 8/28/2019 9:16 AM, Houder wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:44:17, Vince Rice wrote:
>
>>> On Aug 27, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Houder wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> .. 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 ...
>>>
>>> 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
>> 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.
>
> Right, "Corinna" Number Three.
>
> Before I sent my question to the list, I had fired up the debugger and
> lured it in providing me the neccessary info:
>
> It showed me that my input (e:\) was being "mutilated" at the start of
> mkdir() in winsup/cygwin/dir.cc
>
> Using git I had found the "suspicious-looking" commit by Eric Blake:
>
> - https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=52dba6a5c45e8d8ba1e237a15213311dc11d91fb
> ( Fix some POSIX-compliance bugs in link, rename, mkdir. )
>
> --
> author Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:51:53 +0000 (15:51 +0000) <====
> committer Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:51:53 +0000 (15:51 +0000)
> commit 52dba6a5c45e8d8ba1e237a15213311dc11d91fb
> --
>
> Note September 2009! (as hinted by Corinna's alter ego)
>
> In short, neither the answer by Corinna's alter ego nor your translation
> raised the level of the knowledge that I had already acquired.
>
> Linux-compat. Really?
>
> Who in his right mind would want to create a subdirectory e:\ on Linux?
>
> ls -ld 'e:\'
> stat 'e:\'
> touch 'e:\'
> rmdir 'e:\'
>
> all refer to /drv/e # /cygdrive/e if not remapped
>
> Only mkdir does NOT.
>
> And I am the only one who finds this a bit odd? That why I asked: why
> cannot mkdir and rmdir be symmetrical w/ respect to e:\ ?
>
> Because of Linux? Weird.
>
> Now I have to tell a newbie on Cygwin, that he should use
>
> mkdir 'e:\.' BUT rmdir 'e:\'
>
> in order to observe the same results as the Windows equivalents do.
>
> (yes, he should use mkdir /drv/e and rmdir /drv/e)
>
> Tampi.
>
As hinted out in here, backporting the code snippet from mkdir to rmdir
would solve your issue.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-28 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 15:25 Houder
2019-08-27 16:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-27 17:01 ` Houder
2019-08-27 17:32 ` Vince Rice
2019-08-27 17:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-28 7:16 ` Houder
2019-08-28 9:22 ` john doe [this message]
2019-08-28 11:47 ` Houder
2019-08-28 13:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-28 14:16 ` Eric Blake
2019-08-28 14:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-28 15:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-29 15:19 ` Houder
2019-08-30 8:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-30 12:42 ` Houder
2019-09-01 17:38 ` Houder
2019-09-02 8:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-09-03 8:40 ` Houder
2019-09-03 6:50 ` Andrey Repin
2019-09-19 19:51 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-20 9:11 ` Houder
2019-09-20 18:20 ` Houder
2019-09-21 16:07 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-22 7:34 ` Houder
2019-09-22 14:12 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-07 3:47 ` L A Walsh
2019-08-27 19:48 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-27 20:58 ` Brian Inglis
2019-08-28 7:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-27 22:21 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-28 13:36 ` Eric Blake
2019-08-28 22:57 ` Houder
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