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Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:32:03 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	Vince Rice <vrice AT solidrocksystems DOT com>
Cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...
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On Aug 27 11:44, Vince Rice wrote:
> > On Aug 27, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Houder wrote:
> >=20
> > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> >> =E2=80=A6
> >> 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).
> >=20
> > .. 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 ...

Back for a couple days only :}

> > Perhaps you could make an entry in her "TODO list" that the 3 lines
> > above requires some more explanation for pour souls like me.
>=20
> I am not Corinna, but I read that as=E2=80=A6
> 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.

Exactly.


Corinna

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