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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050928205535.044835d8@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:59:59 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: bug in rmdir(2) In-Reply-To: <20050928230231.GF26582@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> References: <092820052031.26647.433AFDB9000034B50000681722073000330A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <6.2.1.2.0.20050928163815.044348e0@pop.prospeed.net> <20050928230231.GF26582@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:02 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote: >On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:46:45PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>At 04:31 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote: >>>POSIX requires resolving a filename with a trailing slash as >>>though . were implicitly present, and requires rmdir(2) to fail >>>with EINVAL if the final component is '.'. Therefore, both of >>>these cases should fail rather than removing the directory: >>> >>>$ mkdir a b >>>$ rmdir a/ b/. >>>$ ls a b # Oops, rmdir("a/") and rmdir("b/.") incorrectly succeeded >>>ls: a: No such file or directory >>>ls: b: No such file or directory >> >> >>But that conflicts with Windows semantics, doesn't it? If this is important >>enough for 'rmdir', I suppose you could patch it to give you the behavior >>you describe. But making Cygwin work this way internally is playing with >>the already complex path processing code. I can't see the gain to support >>this corner case and slow down everything else. > >LARRY! LARRY! It's POSIX! It's POSIX, I tell you man! Are you daft? >We don't argue with POSIX! Of course. What was I thinking? Now everybody click your heals together and say "There's nothing like POSIX. There's nothing like POSIX..." ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/