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Subject: Re: bug with touch t/
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On Mar  4 21:47, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to POSIX (and as implemented on Linux):
> 
> $ rm -Rf t
> $ touch t/
> touch: setting times of `t/': No such file or directory
> $ : > t/
> t/: Is a directory.
> 
> 
> The ENOENT failure is correct, since you are using the syntax to open (or 
> create) a directory but are not going through mkdir.  However, on cygwin, both 
> commands mistakenly create the regular file 't'.  This is also an issue with
> 
> touch 't\'
> 
> which likewise mistakenly creates the regular file 't' by treating \ as an 
> alternate directory separator - as a result, the current git checkout of 
> autoconf is triggering spurious failures when testing whether the file system 
> supports \ embedded in file names rather than as directory separators.

Should be fixed in the new 1.5.25-11 test release.


Thanks,
Corinna

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