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Re: [x86_64 on W7] Cannot remove cygwin root directory
- From: Frédéric Bron <frederic dot bron at m4x dot org>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:19:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: [x86_64 on W7] Cannot remove cygwin root directory
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- References: <CAPw2spiGQfRpi8A1AO6oTuTAJ-iUZgTUMBeQMnTo8RFfuyW-NQ at mail dot gmail dot com> <525E7D3C dot 20808 at cornell dot edu>
> There is an upstream packaging bug that caused two copies of the README file
> to be installed, one of which is called "README." (including the dot). I
> guess Windows is confused by whatever Cygwin does to allow file names to
> include a dot. But you can delete the file from a Cygwin bash shell.
Thanks a lot. I reinstalled a minimum cygwin in another directory and
could rm -rf the old cygwin root directory.
This is strange that cygwin can remove something Windows cannot...
Frédéric
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