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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:52:53 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: It's out there
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In-Reply-To: <3AE2E788.622818F5@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:15:36AM -0400

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:15:36AM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:29:24PM +1000, Travis Howell wrote:
>> >One minor problem, rm seems unable to delete symbolic links created by
>> >cygwin 1.3.0-1
>> >I guess fileutils needs an update. An example:
>> >unknown AT CO3007967-A c:/A3D
>> >$ rm eggdrop.exe
>> >rm: cannot remove `eggdrop.exe': No such file or directory
>> 
>> Um, no.  That would be what we call in the industry, "a bug" in Cygwin.
>> 
>> It's a showstopper.
>
>Have you reproduced this "bug", Chris?  I can't.
>
>$ uname -a
>CYGWIN_NT-5.0 KHELDAR 1.3.0(0.37/3/2) 2001-04-21 19:40 i686 unknown
>$ mkdir foo
>$ cd foo
>$ touch bar
>$ ls -l
>total 0
>-rw-rw-r--   1 cwilson   None          0 Apr 22 10:13 bar
>$ ln -s bar baz
>$ ls -l
>total 1
>-rw-rw-r--   1 cwilson   None          0 Apr 22 10:13 bar
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 cwilson   None         86 Apr 22 10:14 baz -> bar
>$ rm baz
>$ ls -l
>total 0
>-rw-rw-r--   1 cwilson   None          0 Apr 22 10:13 bar
>
>What's the problem?

The .exe extension is the clue.  You can't rm a symlink with a .exe (or,
presumably, a .bat or .com) extension.  I can reproduce it.  I should
have a patch soon.

cgf