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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...
References: <bc3df101ab93c20b86c3ab7fa7d3ea4f@xs4all.nl>	<20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:54:24 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's	message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49 +0200")
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Corinna Vinschen writes:
> mkdir(2) has some special code from 2009 which drops trailing
> {back}slashes to perform a bordercase in mkdir Linux-compatible.
> This code snippet doesn't exist in rmdir(2).

While we're discussing oddities, creating symbolic links in the virtual
/dev directory still works and those links show up in the real
(underlying) Windows directory as well.  This is why the Bash
postinstall still works and I'm not sure if it should do that the way
it's written.


Regards,
Achim.
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