"run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6
Daniel Colascione
dan.colascione@gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 00:42:00 GMT 2010
On 8/18/10 1:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> POSIX allows the refusal to delete an in-use directory; and Solaris NFS
>> mounts behave this way.
What about renaming directories though? (Damn this tight coupling
Windows has between files and filenames.)
>> But since Linux can delete in-use directories
Not just Linux -- OS X and the other BSDs too, presumably, allow
renaming and deleting directories that are the CWD of some process.
>> (where an in-use directory includes the condition of at least one
>> process owning that directory as its cwd), and cygwin emulates Linux
>> rather than POSIX, we can try harder if it makes sense.
>
> That lets me more tend to 3 now (cgf's idea to defer until the first
> chdir). I'm still chewing nails, though.
IMVHO, #1 is the right choice. It's a lot less surprising than #3, and
it fails safe. It's a very simple model: "relative filename use will
fail unless you do something special, and by doing something special,
you signify that you understand the magic." I can imagine #3 causing
subtle bugs in programs that only chdir() sometimes.
Using Win32 functions in a Cygwin program already requires extra
knowledge; adding CWD tracking doesn't hurt much.
The other crazy idea would be to override the Win32 file and path
functions and handle the notion of a current directory entirely within
Cygwin for both Win32 and Cygwin functions, but IIRC, playing games with
Windows API functions was explicitly rejected a while ago.
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