Odd, is it not? mkdir 'e:\' cannot be undone by rmdir 'e:\' ...

[Houder <houder at xs4all dot nl>]

L.S.,

# note: cygdrive has been remapped to /drv at my place

64-%% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Seven 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 Cygwin
64-%% mkdir /drv/e
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/drv/e’: Permission denied

64-@@ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Seven 3.1.0(0.340/5/3) 2019-08-19 10:13 x86_64 Cygwin
64-@@ mkdir /drv/e
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/drv/e’: File exists

Different error report (which was the objective of Ben Wijen):

    https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2019-q2/msg00136.html

Now, let's play:

64-@@ cygpath -w /drv/e
E:\

64-@@ mkdir 'e:\' # creates subdirectory e: !!!!!
64-@@ rmdir 'e:\' # fails, because it refers to /drv/e
rmdir: failed to remove 'e:\': Directory not empty

64-@@ rmdir 'e:'

Yes, I should NOT use "DOS paths" ...

    https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-win32

However, I wonder why e:\ is interpreted by mkdir as e:, and as
/drv/e (that is as e:\) by rmdir.

Any reason for this remarkable difference?

Regards,
Henri


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