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Inability to delete *or rename* CWD of any program driving me nuts


I keep bumping into Cygwin's new inability rename or delete
directories that are the CWD of any program. In particular, Emacs will
often start background processes like aspell in whatever directory
happens to be the default-directory for the current buffer. That
program hangs around even after I kill all buffers visiting files in
that directory, so even hours after I last edit a file in a directory,
I find myself wondering why on earth 'mv' on it hangs. Also, I have
(bad?) habit of leaving old terminal windows around, sometimes sitting
in directories I later delete or rename. I get rid of them eventually,
but having to hunt down and kill them to perform basic filesystem
operations is a nuisance.

Of course, these annoyances can be worked around, but it was less
cumbersome to just allow cwd to be modified.

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