Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/09/28/21:00:35
At 07:02 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:46:45PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>At 04:31 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote:
>>>POSIX requires resolving a filename with a trailing slash as
>>>though . were implicitly present, and requires rmdir(2) to fail
>>>with EINVAL if the final component is '.'. Therefore, both of
>>>these cases should fail rather than removing the directory:
>>>
>>>$ mkdir a b
>>>$ rmdir a/ b/.
>>>$ ls a b # Oops, rmdir("a/") and rmdir("b/.") incorrectly succeeded
>>>ls: a: No such file or directory
>>>ls: b: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>>But that conflicts with Windows semantics, doesn't it? If this is important
>>enough for 'rmdir', I suppose you could patch it to give you the behavior
>>you describe. But making Cygwin work this way internally is playing with
>>the already complex path processing code. I can't see the gain to support
>>this corner case and slow down everything else.
>
>LARRY! LARRY! It's POSIX! It's POSIX, I tell you man! Are you daft?
>We don't argue with POSIX!
Of course. What was I thinking? Now everybody click your heals together
and say "There's nothing like POSIX. There's nothing like POSIX..." ;-)
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