On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:44:22PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >Yes. Looks like Cygwin is too hasty in assigning the error number: Linux
> >only returns ENOENT if the directory doesn't already exist, but Cygwin
> >will always return it for a trailing dot argument. The same with rmdir,
> >where it would always return EINVAL, even if the directory doesn't exist
> >(in which case Linux returns ENOENT). FWIW, POSIX only specifies an
> >action for rmdir() on a trailing dot (EINVAL).
>
> rmdir doesn't always return EINVAL.
>
> bash-3.00$ ./rmdir qwer
> -1 = rmdir ("qwer")
> rmdir: No such file or directory
> bash-3.00$ ./rmdir qwer/.
> -1 = rmdir ("qwer/.")
> rmdir: Invalid argument
I meant in the case of a trailing dot. On Linux, if directory FOO doesn't
exist, "rmdir FOO/." returns ENOENT.
The fix is pretty much the same as what you did for mkdir, except that
EEXIST is replaced by EINVAL...
Igor
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