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According to JackDesBwa on 6/23/2008 2:00 PM: | Can you repeat with 'LC_ALL=C rmdir ...' and see what the English | | translation was? | | | The translation is correct : | rmdir: failed to remove `/media/win/System Volume Information/': File exists | | | My guess is that the translation is correct, and that | the reason the message is less than stellar is because the errno value | being reported is not very applicable to the situation. All right - my guess was confirmed - the error is not in the translation, but either in the kernel's rmdir(2) behavior or in coreutils reaction to the kernel's behavior. | You may | also want | to use strace to determine what errno the kernel was returning. | | | $ strace -c rmdir /media/win/System\ Volume\ Information/ | | rmdir: échec de suppression de `/media/win/System Volume Information/': | Le fichier existe | Process 18932 detached | % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall | ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- | nan 0.000000 0 3 read | nan 0.000000 0 4 write | nan 0.000000 0 54 35 open | nan 0.000000 0 21 close | nan 0.000000 0 19 fstat | nan 0.000000 0 24 mmap | nan 0.000000 0 2 mprotect | nan 0.000000 0 2 munmap | nan 0.000000 0 3 brk | nan 0.000000 0 3 3 access | nan 0.000000 0 1 execve | nan 0.000000 0 1 1 rmdir | nan 0.000000 0 1 arch_prctl | ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- | 100.00 0.000000 138 39 total Hmm, this output isn't from Linux strace. What OS are you using? Do you have ktrace or truss or some other syscall tracer instead? And is the NTFS drive local or is it being accessed over a network? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEUEARECAAYFAkh3xWUACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBHOwCYtHrfJAAuUwmhMKum4M3y8Y8c AQCeIAQhEoj43tSJyGRFIOWZ3jgEQXc= =MY0U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils