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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:12:52 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: directory opening/closing behavior
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In-Reply-To: <20011117234733.6316.qmail@web13904.mail.yahoo.com>; from chadfowler@yahoo.com on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:47:33PM -0800

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:47:33PM -0800, chad fowler wrote:
> Cygwin output:
> mkdir 0
> opendir 167839552
> rmdir 0
> mkdir -1
> errno: 13
> 
> Linux output:
> mkdir 0
> opendir 134518696
> rmdir 0
> mkdir 0
> errno: 38
> 
> After having run, the directory "_blah" exists in
> Linux but doesn't exist in Cygwin.
> 
> What's the expected behavior?

Exactly what you've described.  It's a Windows feature which
isn't POSIX compatible and for which a workaround would be
extremly difficult.

Corinna

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