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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...
References: <bc3df101ab93c20b86c3ab7fa7d3ea4f AT xs4all DOT nl>	<20190827152549 DOT GY11632 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:54:24 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20190827152549.GY11632@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's	message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:25:49 +0200")
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Corinna Vinschen writes:
> mkdir(2) has some special code from 2009 which drops trailing
> {back}slashes to perform a bordercase in mkdir Linux-compatible.
> This code snippet doesn't exist in rmdir(2).

While we're discussing oddities, creating symbolic links in the virtual
/dev directory still works and those links show up in the real
(underlying) Windows directory as well.  This is why the Bash
postinstall still works and I'm not sure if it should do that the way
it's written.


Regards,
Achim.
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