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On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schneck wrote: > In fact you are correct. setup.log.full contains: > 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man > ... > rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man > rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache > rmdir C:\cygwin/var > Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I suppose > since there's an empty placeholder which gets removed. > > > > Short answer is: 'don't do that'. > > Reasonably good advice. But it's possible that this should be > considered a bug: uninstalling man shouldn't even try to get rid of var, > perhaps? Nope. When uninstalling, directories are cleaned up. I'm not going to special case 'uninstall completely' when we don't need to. Sounds to me like the windows API has yet another idiocy. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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