rmdir limitation to 3192 directories

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:30:12AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:58 AM, genonceauxwrote:
>
>>
>> I try to delete empty directories with this command : "/bin/find /path
>> -depth -type d -empty -execdir rmdir \{\} \;"
>
>If you change this to
>
>/bin/find /path -depth -type d -empty -delete
>
>>
>> If the number of empty directories to remove greater than 3192, I have the
>> following message for the directories to remove remaining :
>> "Bad file descriptor"
>
>do you still get this?

And, also:  http://cygwin.com/problems.html .

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