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Subject:	Re: Unable to delete directory in Cygwin
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:28:22AM -0400, Brett Serkez wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:24:12AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>NTFS and FAT file systems simply do not have the concept of inodes,
>>>Cygwin is dependent upon the facilities supplied by these file systems.
>>
>>Actually NTFS does have something like an inode.  That's what Cygwin
>>uses.
>
>Then why does this fail?  Please enlighten us?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00347.html

It has nothing to do with inodes.  There have been versions of UNIX
which didn't allow you to remove a directory when someone has cd'ed to
it, too.

cgf

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