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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:\' ...
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:58:32 +0200
In-Reply-To: <8736hm7aun.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Tue,	27 Aug 2019 19:54:24 +0200")
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Achim Gratz writes:
> 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.

Nevermind, I tried again on two machines (including the one I tested
this on yesterday) and I can't reproduce it.  :-P


Regards,
Achim.
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