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Re: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:01:37AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 04:45:24AM +0000, John William wrote:
> >I just installed Cygwin and am having the following problem with rmdir() --
> >it fails if the CWD is set to the directory to be deleted.
> >
> >main()
> >{
> > mkdir("test");
> > rmdir("test"); <-- succeeds
> >
> > mkdir("test");
> > chdir("test");
> > rmdir("test"); <-- fails
> >}
BTW, the above can't work on _any_ system. After creating a dir `test'
and then chdir'ing into that directory, it's very unlikely that there's
another subdirectory `test' in `test'...
Corinna
> >
> >This is different than standard UN*X. It appears to me that POSIX only
> >requires that the directory be empty, it doesn't say that the CWD can't be
> >set to the directory to be deleted.
> >
> >Is this a known issue? It is causing problems with some programs I'm trying
> >to compile (they work fine under RH Linux, DJGPP and FreeBSD). Please e-mail
> >any reponses, as I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks!
>
> Welcome to Windows. If Windows can't delete a directory while it is the
> current directory of some process then there is no way that Cygwin can
> do this either.
>
> The Single Unix Specification does seem to imply that deleting the current
> working directory should succeed but there are some UNIX systems out there
> that don't adhere to this. For instance, I just tried this on IRIX 5.3
> and it failed to rmdir a directory if I was cd'ed to it.
>
> cgf
>
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