> From: Andrey Repin > > I was doing some cleanup, and accidentally left Cygwin terminal hanging in a > directory I've since deleted. > When trying to reference bash manual from there, the thing all went down in > flames of > > $ man bash > man: can't change directory to '/home/anrdaemon/1': Permission denied > man: command exited with status 255: (cd /home/anrdaemon/1 && LESS=- > ix8RmPm Manual page bash(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB > %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page bash(1) ?ltline > %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$ > MAN_PN=bash(1) less -s) > > Is this expected behavior? Why it is trying to chdir anywhere, anyway? > I can reproduce this from both local and remote filesystems. >
I imagine that Cygwin is trying to put the child processes in the same working directory which no longer exists. On a real *NIX the directory would not have actually been deleted until the last process had released its connections to the directory. That doesn't happen on Windows. The only fix I can think is for Cygwin to hold open the directory of the CWD but that has other side effects such as not being able to delete the directory. -- cyg Simple -- 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
