On 1/17/2008 2:03 PM, Greg Chicares wrote:
On 2008-01-17 18:49Z, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 1/17/2008 10:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 17 10:39, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Users who install Cygwin then uninstall it (perhaps improperly, I'm not
sure) can be left with the registry key
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/]
set with a non-existent path as the "native" string value (which is
normally be something like "c:\\cygwin"). When that happens, "rm -rf
subdir" fails with this message:
Does it work okay, with your customized Cygwin distro, if they
remove that registry key? If so, then an easy resolution might
be to advise your users who uninstall Cygwin to follow step 6
of FAQ 2.17:
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all
to remove the keys, even if in other use-cases that step may
seem unnecessary.
rm is fine if we just remove the "mounts v2" key. We haven't
experimented with more drastic surgery.
Duncan Murdoch
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