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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:44:22PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >Yes.  Looks like Cygwin is too hasty in assigning the error number: Linux
> >only returns ENOENT if the directory doesn't already exist, but Cygwin
> >will always return it for a trailing dot argument.  The same with rmdir,
> >where it would always return EINVAL, even if the directory doesn't exist
> >(in which case Linux returns ENOENT).  FWIW, POSIX only specifies an
> >action for rmdir() on a trailing dot (EINVAL).
>
> rmdir doesn't always return EINVAL.
>
>   bash-3.00$ ./rmdir qwer
>   -1 = rmdir ("qwer")
>   rmdir: No such file or directory
>   bash-3.00$ ./rmdir qwer/.
>   -1 = rmdir ("qwer/.")
>   rmdir: Invalid argument

I meant in the case of a trailing dot.  On Linux, if directory FOO doesn't
exist, "rmdir FOO/." returns ENOENT.

The fix is pretty much the same as what you did for mkdir, except that
EEXIST is replaced by EINVAL...
	Igor
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