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Re: [Patch]: rmdir
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:49:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: [Patch]: rmdir
- References: <3.0.5.32.20040317222144.007f3890@incoming.verizon.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:21:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>This is not a bug fix, just the reversion of a comment removal
>following some recent tests on NT, plus some code simplification.
>
>Here are the details:
>- Until last Sunday, rmdir(".") didn't work.
>- Now it works on 9x if the directory is empty.
> "rmdir ." from a shell works there too.
>- It also works on NT if the directory is empty AND no other process
> is using it as working directory. "rmdir ." doesn't work from a shell.
>Following my initial experience on 9x, I had deleted some comments.
>That was premature.
>
>2004-03-17 Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
>
> * dir.cc (rmdir): Reorganize error handling to reduce indentation.
Go ahead and check this in.
Thanks,
cgf