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From: "John William" <jw2357 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 04:45:24 
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Sep 2001 04:45:25.0101 (UTC) FILETIME=[133E49D0:01C13821]

I just installed Cygwin and am having the following problem with rmdir() -- 
it fails if the CWD is set to the directory to be deleted.

main()
{
  mkdir("test");
  rmdir("test"); <-- succeeds

  mkdir("test");
  chdir("test");
  rmdir("test"); <-- fails
}

This is different than standard UN*X. It appears to me that POSIX only 
requires that the directory be empty, it doesn't say that the CWD can't be 
set to the directory to be deleted.

Is this a known issue? It is causing problems with some programs I'm trying 
to compile (they work fine under RH Linux, DJGPP and FreeBSD). Please e-mail 
any reponses, as I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks!

- John


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