1.3.6-6 & CVS: BUG: opendir() returns ENOTDIR whereas ENOENT would probably be a better choice...

[egor duda]

Hi!

Friday, 04 January, 2002 Alexei Lioubimov alexeipobox@mtu-net.ru wrote:

AL> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot open directory .../CVS/mypoj/Attic: Not a
AL> directory
AL> I send this error to info-cvs mailing list and they said, that it is due to
AL> opendir() implementation in cygwin (it returns ENOTDIR instead of
AL> ENOENT in most cases :( ).

this program prints 'errno=2', which is correct ENOENT result.

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main()
{
  DIR* x = opendir ( "/tmp/wazoof" );
  if (!x)
    printf ( "errno=%d\n", errno);
}

AL> Will it be corrected in cygwin or in cygwin port of CVS?

care to provide a simple self-contained testcase?

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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