Re: directory opening/closing behavior

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:47:33PM -0800, chad fowler wrote:
> Cygwin output:
> mkdir 0
> opendir 167839552
> rmdir 0
> mkdir -1
> errno: 13
> 
> Linux output:
> mkdir 0
> opendir 134518696
> rmdir 0
> mkdir 0
> errno: 38
> 
> After having run, the directory "_blah" exists in
> Linux but doesn't exist in Cygwin.
> 
> What's the expected behavior?

Exactly what you've described.  It's a Windows feature which
isn't POSIX compatible and for which a workaround would be
extremly difficult.

Corinna

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