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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:52:25 -0400
To: Steve Jorgensen <steve AT khoral DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin's unlink
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In-Reply-To: <199910262001.OAA09520@benson>; from Steve Jorgensen on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:01:10PM -0600

On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:01:10PM -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>Anyway, in the case where the file is truely a directory, under all
>unix systems we've tried, unlink returns and error, and we proceed with
>the recursive directory removal, but under cygwin it returns success
>(even though nothing is removed), and our code returns success without
>removing the directory.  Is this a limitation in the underlying windows
>unlink, or a bug in cygwin?

When I try this I get a "Permission denied" error.  It should be a
"Is a directory error" though.  I've changed the sources here so
this should be fixed in the next snapshot.

cgf

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