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: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:12:52 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: directory opening/closing behavior Message-ID: <20011118111252.A31193@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20011117234733.6316.qmail@web13904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011117234733.6316.qmail@web13904.mail.yahoo.com>; from chadfowler@yahoo.com on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:47:33PM -0800 On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:47:33PM -0800, chad fowler wrote: > Cygwin output: > mkdir 0 > opendir 167839552 > rmdir 0 > mkdir -1 > errno: 13 > > Linux output: > mkdir 0 > opendir 134518696 > rmdir 0 > mkdir 0 > errno: 38 > > After having run, the directory "_blah" exists in > Linux but doesn't exist in Cygwin. > > What's the expected behavior? Exactly what you've described. It's a Windows feature which isn't POSIX compatible and for which a workaround would be extremly difficult. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/