rm fails with bad mount information

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 1/17/2008 2:03 PM, Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2008-01-17 18:49Z, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 1/17/2008 10:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jan 17 10:39, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Users who install Cygwin then uninstall it (perhaps improperly, I'm not 
>>>> sure) can be left with the registry key
>>>>
>>>> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/]
>>>>
>>>> set with a non-existent path as the "native" string value (which is 
>>>> normally be something like "c:\\cygwin").  When that happens, "rm -rf 
>>>> subdir" fails with this message:
> 
> Does it work okay, with your customized Cygwin distro, if they
> remove that registry key? If so, then an easy resolution might
> be to advise your users who uninstall Cygwin to follow step 6
> of FAQ 2.17:
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
> 
> to remove the keys, even if in other use-cases that step may
> seem unnecessary.

rm is fine if we just remove the "mounts v2" key.  We haven't 
experimented with more drastic surgery.

Duncan Murdoch

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