On Mar 4 21:47, Eric Blake wrote: > 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.
Should be fixed in the new 1.5.25-11 test release. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
