"run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Wed Aug 18 20:00:00 GMT 2010


On 08/18/2010 01:58 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Can someone please remind me why you shouldn't change to that directory
>> only when SetCurrentDirectory would fail due to a long path, virtual
>> path, etc?  I think it was covered in the developer list, but I can't find
>> it right now.
> 
> It breaks POSIX compatibility in terms of not being able to rename
> or delete a directory which is the CWD of any process.

It breaks Linux, but not POSIX, compatibility.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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