RE: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 22:59, Ronald Landheer wrote:
> Hm.. This should work.. I can easily delete the current dir in CygWin with the M$ 
>Explorer, 
> but do get a "permission denied" when I try it in cygwin. (If I do >
this:
> $ cd
> $ mkdir test
> $ cd test
> In explorer, delete p:\cygwin\home\RonaldLandheer\test
> $ cd ..
> I end up in ~/test/..
> 
> It would seem the _current_ process can't kill its own directory..
> Would it be possible to fork, go a dir lower and destroy it from there? (Haven't 
>tried it yet, but I'd expect the same results)

No.

> Greetz!
> 
> Ronald

Try this to see whats going on:

open up a cmd or command prompt. (No cygwin).

mkdir foo
cd foo
no, from start|run, start up explorer
now navigate to foo, and try to delete it.

It might work on 9x, it won't on NT - ever.

Rob 


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