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RE: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:35:30 +0100
- Subject: RE: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Volker Quetschke
> Sent: 27 May 2004 14:25
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: rm hangs on illegal filename nul
>
> Hi,
>
> I somehow managed to create a file named nul (further investigation
> pending), and now rm -rf hangs when trying to remove the
> directory with
> this file.
Known ('doze) problem. Also occurs with filenames like aux, com1, lpt
etc. The workaround is WDDTT.
cheers,
DaveK
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