Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 26 14:48, Linda Walsh wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Just try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ It contains the patch. --- In running the rd * in bot of my Doc and Pictures dir, no dirs were renamed or deleted ... (FWIW, I have a recycle

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 25 13:53, Linda Walsh wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Anyway, I have a fix for that. You didn't explicitely allow to send a test DLL, so I just applied the patch to CVS. Please test the next developer snapshot. Sorry, I thought it would be implicit that I gave you

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Just try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ It contains the patch. --- In running the rd * in bot of my Doc and Pictures dir, no dirs were renamed or deleted ... (FWIW, I have a recycle bin setup on my samba server, so the

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 18:24, Linda Walsh wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: The only problem is that: Even though I see how I could potentially enforce the situation, I fail to reproduce it. Can you explicitely show an ls of the dir and an strace of an rmdir which succeeded to rename the dir? I'll might

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Anyway, I have a fix for that. You didn't explicitely allow to send a test DLL, so I just applied the patch to CVS. Please test the next developer snapshot. Sorry, I thought it would be implicit that I gave you everything you asked for -- not that I

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-24 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: The only problem is that: Even though I see how I could potentially enforce the situation, I fail to reproduce it. Can you explicitely show an ls of the dir and an strace of an rmdir which succeeded to rename the dir? I'll might send you a test DLL via PM at one point,

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 21 22:56, Linda Walsh wrote: I sometimes use rmdir * to clean up empty dir's. This is not safe running under cygwin on Win7-64 when interacting with network-shares hosted on a samba server with unix extensions. I do not know why and there was no permanent damage, but two of my

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Linda Walsh! I sometimes use rmdir * to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions. -- WBR, Andrey Repin

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 22/07/2012 16:08, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! I sometimes use rmdir * to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions.

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! I sometimes use rmdir * to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice and be more explicit in your actions. You are

Re: Confusing, but not fatal bug....rmdir removed network dir (rename to .____00000hexnum/)

2012-07-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! I sometimes use rmdir * to clean up empty dir's. There's a known issue about difference in Windows and *NIX handling of directory removal in many cases. I would say, you drop such practice