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Re: bug in rmdir(2)


At 04:31 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote:
>POSIX requires resolving a filename with a trailing slash as
>though . were implicitly present, and requires rmdir(2) to fail
>with EINVAL if the final component is '.'.  Therefore, both of
>these cases should fail rather than removing the directory:
>
>$ mkdir a b
>$ rmdir a/ b/.
>$ ls a b      # Oops, rmdir("a/") and rmdir("b/.") incorrectly succeeded
>ls: a: No such file or directory
>ls: b: No such file or directory


But that conflicts with Windows semantics, doesn't it?  If this is important 
enough for 'rmdir', I suppose you could patch it to give you the behavior 
you describe.  But making Cygwin work this way internally is playing with
the already complex path processing code.  I can't see the gain to support 
this corner case and slow down everything else.


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