On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:07:10PM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > > > On Windows, EACCES overrules ENOTEMPTY when calling rmdir(). But if the > > directory is busy, we only want to retry deleting the directory if it > > is empty, so test specifically for that case and set ENOTEMPTY rather > > than EACCES. > > > > I'm sorry, I don't quite understand. rmdir on Windows/MinGW fails with > errno=ENOTEMPTY if a directory isn't empty: I think Johannes was referring to the case when a directory is busy. E.g. a process is running that has its working directory inside that directory. In that case ENOTEMPTY was not returned even though the directory is not empty. Thats what I read from the patch. Cheers Heiko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html