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- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: cvs
- From: "Lothan" <lothan at newsguy dot com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:14:28 -0800
I'm using Cygwin 1.1.6 (full install from scratch using the setup tool) on
Windows 2000 SP1 and am attempting to check out the gnome sources from
:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome. Everything was working well
until it got to the gdm folder, at which point it stopped with the error
unable to rename "gdm/config/.new.:0" to ":0". This brought up an
interesting problem because bash (ls -al) could not see any files in the
config directory even though Windows Explorer clearly showed a file named
".new.". Even funnier is that neither bash, Windows Exploroer nor a windows
command prompt could delete this file; and neither bash nor Windows Explorer
could remove the directory (Explorer complained that it couldn't read the
source file or the disk). I finally managed to get the directory deleted
from a Windows command prompt.
lothan@LOTHAN2 ~/test
$ ls -a
. .. .new. a.exe test.c test2.c
lothan@LOTHAN2 ~/test
$ ls -al
ls: .new.: No such file or directory
total 13
drwxr-xr-x 2 lothan None 0 Dec 17 17:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 lothan None 4096 Dec 17 16:24 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 lothan None 17742 Dec 17 17:10 a.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 lothan None 196 Dec 17 16:58 test.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 lothan None 93 Dec 17 17:10 test2.c
I can duplicate the behavior quite easily using this code:
#include <sys/unistd.h>
#include <sys/fcntl.h>
main()
{
int f;
/* open() also works */
f = creat(".new.:0", O_RDWR | O_CREAT);
write(f, "this is a test\n", 15);
close(f);
}
WARNING: run the resulting executable in an empty directory. The only way I
can delete the file is to delete the directory from a Windows command prompt
(rd test). I did try unlink(".new.:0") but it failed.
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