X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:36:40 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bug with touch t/ Message-ID: <20080305183640.GI18407@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mar 4 21:47, Eric Blake wrote: > According to POSIX (and as implemented on Linux): > > $ rm -Rf t > $ touch t/ > touch: setting times of `t/': No such file or directory > $ : > t/ > t/: Is a directory. > > > The ENOENT failure is correct, since you are using the syntax to open (or > create) a directory but are not going through mkdir. However, on cygwin, both > commands mistakenly create the regular file 't'. This is also an issue with > > touch 't\' > > which likewise mistakenly creates the regular file 't' by treating \ as an > alternate directory separator - as a result, the current git checkout of > autoconf is triggering spurious failures when testing whether the file system > supports \ embedded in file names rather than as directory separators. Should be fixed in the new 1.5.25-11 test release. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/