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bug in rmdir(2)
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:31:53 +0000
- Subject: bug in rmdir(2)
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
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Eric Blake
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