Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:52:25 -0400 To: Steve Jorgensen Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygwin's unlink Message-ID: <19991026165225.A2485@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Steve Jorgensen , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <199910262001.OAA09520@benson> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <199910262001.OAA09520@benson>; from Steve Jorgensen on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:01:10PM -0600 On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:01:10PM -0600, Steve Jorgensen wrote: >Anyway, in the case where the file is truely a directory, under all >unix systems we've tried, unlink returns and error, and we proceed with >the recursive directory removal, but under cygwin it returns success >(even though nothing is removed), and our code returns success without >removing the directory. Is this a limitation in the underlying windows >unlink, or a bug in cygwin? When I try this I get a "Permission denied" error. It should be a "Is a directory error" though. I've changed the sources here so this should be fixed in the next snapshot. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com