> 2010-04-04 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > > Assume rmdir exists. > * m4/rmdir.m4 (gl_FUNC_RMDIR): Remove test whether rmdir exists. > * doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi: Remove mention of "old platforms".
Oops, that patch was incomplete: HAVE_RMDIR being undefined, it triggered a replacement based on fork(), which does not even link on mingw. This fixes it: 2010-04-06 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> Assume rmdir exists. * lib/rmdir.c (rpl_rmdir): Remove code that invokes the rmdir program. --- lib/rmdir.c.orig Tue Apr 6 23:19:43 2010 +++ lib/rmdir.c Tue Apr 6 23:17:30 2010 @@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ #include <errno.h> #include <string.h> -#include <sys/stat.h> -#include <sys/types.h> #undef rmdir @@ -33,7 +31,6 @@ int rpl_rmdir (char const *dir) { -#if HAVE_RMDIR /* Work around cygwin 1.5.x bug where rmdir("dir/./") succeeds. */ size_t len = strlen (dir); int result; @@ -51,49 +48,4 @@ if (result == -1 && errno == EINVAL) errno = ENOTDIR; return result; - -#else /* !HAVE_RMDIR */ - /* rmdir adapted from GNU tar. FIXME: Delete this implementation in - 2010 if no one reports a system with missing rmdir. */ - pid_t cpid; - int status; - struct stat statbuf; - - if (stat (dir, &statbuf) != 0) - return -1; /* errno already set */ - - if (!S_ISDIR (statbuf.st_mode)) - { - errno = ENOTDIR; - return -1; - } - - cpid = fork (); - switch (cpid) - { - case -1: /* cannot fork */ - return -1; /* errno already set */ - - case 0: /* child process */ - execl ("/bin/rmdir", "rmdir", dir, (char *) 0); - _exit (1); - - default: /* parent process */ - - /* Wait for kid to finish. */ - - while (wait (&status) != cpid) - /* Do nothing. */ ; - - if (status) - { - - /* /bin/rmdir failed. */ - - errno = EIO; - return -1; - } - return 0; - } -#endif /* !HAVE_RMDIR */ }