Hi Dave,
I somehow managed to create a file named nul (further investigation
pending), and now rm -rf hangs when trying to remove the directory with
this file.
Known ('doze) problem. Also occurs with filenames like aux, com1, lpt etc. The workaround is WDDTT.
No, wrong, the problem arises from cygwins new ability to create filenames named nul.
Binary mount. Try: $ echo hello > nul
when you do this with 1.5.10 you get a nice file named nul, 1.5.9 just ignores it. Yes, you're perfectly right, don't do it when it hurts, but I stubled over this problem because the software I'm compiling has (now obviously) broken build scripts, and now I have a few undeletable files on my harddisk.
In my previous mail I said "rm -rf nul" can remove the file, no, when you provide the complete path rm just doesn't complain/hang.
Any ideas how to remove the nul files? Really, I don't want to format my disk because of this.
Volker
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