cannot make a directory called "aux"
Ken Thompson
ken.thompson@gtri.gatech.edu
Mon Feb 9 13:14:00 GMT 2004
Hint,
Did you ever consider reading the FAQs before posting
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owneratcygwin.com On Behalf
> Of Troy Hicks
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:09 AM
> To: cygwinatcygwin.com
> Subject: cannot make a directory called "aux"
>
>
> This is a strange problem.
>
> Here are the basics:
> =====================
> in your home directory (or any directory from cygwin) try to
> "mkdir aux". For
> me this fails with the following complaint:
>
> $ mkdir aux
> mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory
>
> Anyone seen/know of a problem like this? I'm running WinXP with cygwin:
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 gw600 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown
> Cygwin
>
>
> More info
> ===========
> in the same directory in which mkdir aux was attempted ls -al give the
> following (note no aux file, directory or otherwise):
>
> $ ls -al
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Troy A. None 0 Feb 8 19:04 .
> drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Troy A. None 0 Jan 31 12:29 ..
> -rw------- 1 Troy A. None 6459 Feb 7 13:19 .bash_history
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 533 Jan 31 11:10 .bash_profile
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 625 Jan 31 11:10 .bashrc
> -rw------- 1 Troy A. None 188 Feb 6 12:52 .cvspass
> -rw------- 1 Troy A. None 286 Feb 7 11:16 .history
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 Troy A. None 267 Jan 31 11:10 .inputrc
> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Troy A. None 0 Feb 8 22:02 .ncftp
> drwx------+ 2 Troy A. None 0 Feb 9 00:28 .ssh
>
> I ran into the problem when trying to cvs co a source tree that
> had aux as a
> subdirectory down several levels from the top.
>
>
>
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