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Re: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?


Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

> >My reading of this is that if you have a directory open by virtue of
> >it being your working directory, then it is valid for rmdir() to fail.
> >If however it is open via opendir(), then the rmdir() must succeed.  
> 
> Hmm.  I read "open" as also being "open as the current working
> directory".

Me too.  Perhaps I was unclear.

> In any event, cygwin/windows will fail for both of these situations, I
> think.

I'm not surprised.  So Cygwin will not pass a Unix certification
test.  BFD, it's very useful nonetheless. 

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