On Jul 12 20:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > On 07/12/2013 08:42 AM, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > > > > Hi Cygwin and git developers, > > > > Does following scenario show signs of bugs in Cygwin and/or git? > > > > # setup git repo > > $ cd /tmp > > $ mkdir foo && cd foo > > $ git init > > > > # create x: directory > > $ mkdir x: > > $ ls > > x: > > IMHO, this makes an interesting problem (unrelated to git): > Shell script prompts user for file name. > User enters "x:". > Script proceeds as follows: > $ mkdir tmpdir > $ touch tmpdir/x: > $ # useful work done here > $ rm -r tmpdir > rm: cannot remove `tmpdir/x:': No such file or directory > rm: cannot remove `tmpdir': Directory not empty > $
That's a problem of how recursive rm works. It chdir's into the subdirs it's working on and then calls "x:" which is recognized as drive prefix of a windows path. `rm ./x:' works as expected. > It would seem that touch and rm are following different > rules regarding how files may be named. No. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
