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Subject: Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:35:41 +1100
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On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schneck wrote:

> In fact you are correct.  setup.log.full contains:
> 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man
> ...
> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man
> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache
> rmdir C:\cygwin/var

> Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I suppose=20
> since there's an empty placeholder which gets removed.
>=20
>=20
> > Short answer is: 'don't do that'.
>=20
> Reasonably good advice.  But it's possible that this should be=20
> considered a bug: uninstalling man shouldn't even try to get rid of var,=
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> perhaps?

Nope. When uninstalling, directories are cleaned up. I'm not going to
special case 'uninstall completely' when we don't need to.=20

Sounds to me like the windows API has yet another idiocy.

Rob

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