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 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:56:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.3 - fchdir() problem? Message-ID: <20010917135636.A22751@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <009101c13f9d$e694a080$5c6706d5@uhs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <009101c13f9d$e694a080$5c6706d5@uhs> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:25:53PM +0200, Uwe H. Steinfeld wrote: >Hi, >I think there is a problem with fchdir() which seems to be new in Cygwin >1.3.3. >I recompiled fileutils-4.1. Afterwards commands like "mkdir /somedir" and >"rm -rf /somedir" do not work anymore. According to the error message >"cannot open current directory" the commands fail in lib/save-cwd.c, >function save_cwd(). After removing the define for HAVE_FCHDIR in config.h >everything works fine. Apparently fileutils assumes that one can cd to a directory and then remove it. As was just recently discussed in this mailing list, you can't do that on Windows. cgf -- 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/