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On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 10:15:08, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> 
> On Sep  1 19:38, Houder wrote:
> > Hi Corinna,
> >
> > My last post in this issue.
> >
> > As reported, Eric's code snippet in rmdir() (dir.cc) has become
> > redundant, lines 317 - 325 can be removed.
> 
> This is what I'm not entirely sure about.  There's some kind of
> bordercase and as soon as we release Cygwin with this change,
> as chance would have it somebody will report a problem.

And you would be correct ... :-P (see below)

> I'm not opposed to removing this code, but I'd like to get Eric's
> input on this.

Sure, I understand (Eric is far more knowledgable than I am).

Henri

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64-@@ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Seven 3.1.0 path.cc-!opt (2019-09-02 15:11 2019-09-02 15:11 x86_64 Cygwin
                          ------------
That is, I am using an modified 3.1.0-0.2 ...

64-@@ mkdir aap
64-@@ ln -s aap noot
64-@@ mkdir noot
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘noot’: File exists
64-@@ mkdir noot/
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘noot/’: File exists
64-@@ rmdir aap
64-@@ mkdir noot
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘noot’: File exists
64-@@ mkdir noot/ <==== Whao! So that is what Eric indicated in his commit!
64-@@ ls -ld aap <==== WRONG! WRONG!
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Henri None 0 Sep  3 10:28 aap

Investigating ...

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