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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4676d18 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/rmdir.texi @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +@node rmdir +@section @code{rmdir} +@findex rmdir + +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 declared in different header files (namely, @code{<io.h>} or +@code{<direct.h>}) on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +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, MSVC 9. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@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 |