Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:05:32 +0100 (BST) From: Vince Hoffman To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: rm hangs on illegal filename nul In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040527145923.N80239@unsane.co.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 27 May 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Volker Quetschke > > Sent: 27 May 2004 14:25 > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: rm hangs on illegal filename nul > > > > Hi, > > > > I somehow managed to create a file named nul (further investigation > > pending), and now rm -rf hangs when trying to remove the > > directory with > > this file. > > Known ('doze) problem. Also occurs with filenames like aux, com1, lpt > etc. The workaround is WDDTT. > umm is that another way of saying, try cmd /c dir /x find 8.3 format name of file and them rm that. i have a bash script to recurse and remove directories with names of lpt, nul,aux etc somewhere, as a client had left anonymous ftp on and some warez group had created a directory structure about 20 deep with this kind of name. Vince > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/