cygwin 1.3.3 - fchdir() problem?
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Mon Sep 17 10:56:00 GMT 2001
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:25:53PM +0200, Uwe H. Steinfeld wrote:
>Hi,
>I think there is a problem with fchdir() which seems to be new in Cygwin
>1.3.3.
>I recompiled fileutils-4.1. Afterwards commands like "mkdir /somedir" and
>"rm -rf /somedir" do not work anymore. According to the error message
>"cannot open current directory" the commands fail in lib/save-cwd.c,
>function save_cwd(). After removing the define for HAVE_FCHDIR in config.h
>everything works fine.
Apparently fileutils assumes that one can cd to a directory and then remove
it. As was just recently discussed in this mailing list, you can't do that
on Windows.
cgf
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