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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 22:48:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?
To: John William <jw2357 AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Hmm. It looks to me like this should fail, even under Unix. Once you've chdir'd
into test, it no longer exists at the current directory level. Shouldn't the
sequence be

mkdir("test");
chdir("test");
rmdir("../test");

Of course, even this will fail under Windows because Windows won't allow the
current directory to be deleted if it's in use by any process.

--Rick

--- John William <jw2357 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> 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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