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Re: cygwin 1.3.3 - fchdir() problem?
But the problem occurs only for the root directory, "rmdir -rf somedir"
works.
I'll download the sources and try to look at it a bit closer.
Uwe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.3 - fchdir() problem?
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:25:53PM +0200, Uwe H. Steinfeld wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I think there is a problem with fchdir() which seems to be new in Cygwin
> >1.3.3.
> >I recompiled fileutils-4.1. Afterwards commands like "mkdir /somedir" and
> >"rm -rf /somedir" do not work anymore. According to the error message
> >"cannot open current directory" the commands fail in lib/save-cwd.c,
> >function save_cwd(). After removing the define for HAVE_FCHDIR in
config.h
> >everything works fine.
>
> Apparently fileutils assumes that one can cd to a directory and then
remove
> it. As was just recently discussed in this mailing list, you can't do
that
> on Windows.
>
> cgf
>
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