Re: [msysGit] Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] mingw_rmdir: set errno=ENOTEMPTY when appropriate

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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
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