Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

[Linda Walsh]

Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Linda Walsh!
> 
>> I sometimes use "rmdir *" to clean up empty dir's.
> 
> There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of
> directory removal in many cases.
> I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions.
----
	You are saying POSIX allows directory removal to behave
differently if it is running on Windows?

	I'm not running this in explorer, or cmd.com
I'm running in bash, using rmdir.


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