RE: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?

["Ronald Landheer" <info at rlsystems dot net>]

Hm.. This should work.. I can easily delete the current dir in CygWin with the M$ Explorer, but do get a "permission denied" when I try it in cygwin. (If I do this:
$ cd
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
In explorer, delete p:\cygwin\home\RonaldLandheer\test
$ cd ..
I end up in ~/test/..

It would seem the _current_ process can't kill its own directory..
Would it be possible to fork, go a dir lower and destroy it from there? (Haven't tried it yet, but I'd expect the same results)

Greetz!

Ronald

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Rankin
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 7:49 AM
To: John William; cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?


Hmm. It looks to me like this should fail, even under Unix. Once you've chdir'd
into test, it no longer exists at the current directory level. Shouldn't the
sequence be

mkdir("test");
chdir("test");
rmdir("../test");

Of course, even this will fail under Windows because Windows won't allow the
current directory to be deleted if it's in use by any process.

--Rick

--- John William <jw2357@hotmail.com> 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
> }
> 
> 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!
> 
> - John
> 
> 
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