Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Ronald Landheer" To: "Robert Collins" Cc: Subject: RE: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted? Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:01:46 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <999957233.9504.97.camel@lifelesswks> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id JAA12705 Ah.. OK.. I hadn't thought about NT vs. 9x.. I am running 9x here, as you will have guessed. (Seems I've been away from NT too long..) It seems this is just a thing not to do, then.. Greetz! Ronald -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert Collins Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 3:54 PM To: Ronald Landheer Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted? On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 22:59, Ronald Landheer wrote: > Hm.. This should work.. I can easily delete the current dir in CygWin with the M$ Explorer, > but do get a "permission denied" when I try it in cygwin. (If I do > this: > $ cd > $ mkdir test > $ cd test > In explorer, delete p:\cygwin\home\RonaldLandheer\test > $ cd .. > I end up in ~/test/.. > > It would seem the _current_ process can't kill its own directory.. > Would it be possible to fork, go a dir lower and destroy it from there? (Haven't tried it yet, but I'd expect the same results) No. > Greetz! > > Ronald Try this to see whats going on: open up a cmd or command prompt. (No cygwin). mkdir foo cd foo no, from start|run, start up explorer now navigate to foo, and try to delete it. It might work on 9x, it won't on NT - ever. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/