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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:55:33 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: [x86_64 on W7] Cannot remove cygwin root directory
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Greetings, Frédéric Bron!

>> There is an upstream packaging bug that caused two copies of the README file
>> to be installed, one of which is called "README." (including the dot).  I
>> guess Windows is confused by whatever Cygwin does to allow file names to
>> include a dot.  But you can delete the file from a Cygwin bash shell.

> Thanks a lot. I reinstalled a minimum cygwin in another directory and
> could rm -rf the old cygwin root directory.
> This is strange that cygwin can remove something Windows cannot...

Explorer, not Windows.
If you properly tell windows, what you want to do, it will do.
That's why Cygwin (a Windows program) can delete the file in question.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 18.10.2013, <13:54>

Sorry for my terrible english...