X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Frmdir.texi;h=9e26f68975766069c5fafcc3cb8cc273ec3ffc85;hb=a155c5688ab059c1c2fff7f132116b455ddb37ba;hp=85e4e9e5c35e3fcd47cfb6fbeaef54c3c07e0d4d;hpb=2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi b/doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi index 85e4e9e5c..9e26f6897 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi @@ -2,14 +2,20 @@ @section @code{rmdir} @findex rmdir -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/rmdir.html} +POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/rmdir.html} Gnulib module: rmdir Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This function is missing on some old platforms. +This function mistakenly removes a directory with +@code{rmdir("dir/./")} on some platforms: +Cygwin 1.5.x. +@item +This function fails with @code{EINVAL} instead of the expected +@code{ENOTDIR} for @code{rmdir("file/")} on some platforms: +mingw. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @@ -17,4 +23,9 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item When @code{rmdir} fails because the specified directory is not empty, the @code{errno} value is system dependent. +@item +POSIX requires that @code{rmdir("link-to-empty/")} remove @file{empty} +and leave @file{link-to-empty} as a dangling symlink. This is +counter-intuitive, so some systems fail with @code{ENOTDIR} instead: +glibc @end itemize