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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:40:18 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin and x: directory
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On Jul 12 20:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 08:42 AM, Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> >
> > Hi Cygwin and git developers,
> >
> > Does following scenario show signs of bugs in Cygwin and/or git?
> >
> > # setup git repo
> > $ cd /tmp
> > $ mkdir foo && cd foo
> > $ git init
> >
> > # create x: directory
> > $ mkdir x:
> > $ ls
> > x:
> 
> IMHO, this makes an interesting problem (unrelated to git):
> Shell script prompts user for file name.
> User enters "x:".
> Script proceeds as follows:
> $ mkdir tmpdir
> $ touch tmpdir/x:
> $ # useful work done here
> $ rm -r tmpdir
> rm: cannot remove `tmpdir/x:': No such file or directory
> rm: cannot remove `tmpdir': Directory not empty
> $

That's a problem of how recursive rm works.  It chdir's into 
the subdirs it's working on and then calls "x:" which is recognized
as drive prefix of a windows path.  `rm ./x:' works as expected.

> It would seem that touch and rm are following different
> rules regarding how files may be named.

No.


Corinna

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