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Re: It's out there
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: It's out there
- From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:15:36 -0400
- CC: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- References: <20010421212129.A16488@redhat.com> <002301c0cb27$dddd3a00$562fa4cb@brasd1.vic.optushome.com.au> <20010422100320.A17906@redhat.com>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:29:24PM +1000, Travis Howell wrote:
> >One minor problem, rm seems unable to delete symbolic links created by
> >cygwin 1.3.0-1
> >I guess fileutils needs an update. An example:
> >unknown@CO3007967-A c:/A3D
> >$ rm eggdrop.exe
> >rm: cannot remove `eggdrop.exe': No such file or directory
>
> Um, no. That would be what we call in the industry, "a bug" in Cygwin.
>
> It's a showstopper.
Have you reproduced this "bug", Chris? I can't.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 KHELDAR 1.3.0(0.37/3/2) 2001-04-21 19:40 i686 unknown
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
$ touch bar
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cwilson None 0 Apr 22 10:13 bar
$ ln -s bar baz
$ ls -l
total 1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cwilson None 0 Apr 22 10:13 bar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 cwilson None 86 Apr 22 10:14 baz -> bar
$ rm baz
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cwilson None 0 Apr 22 10:13 bar
What's the problem?
--Chuck