According to POSIX (and as implemented on Linux): $ rm -Rf t $ touch t/ touch: setting times of `t/': No such file or directory $ : > t/ t/: Is a directory.
The ENOENT failure is correct, since you are using the syntax to open (or create) a directory but are not going through mkdir. However, on cygwin, both commands mistakenly create the regular file 't'. This is also an issue with touch 't\' which likewise mistakenly creates the regular file 't' by treating \ as an alternate directory separator - as a result, the current git checkout of autoconf is triggering spurious failures when testing whether the file system supports \ embedded in file names rather than as directory separators. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
