Re: random errors from "rm"

[Bob Proulx]

Gee M Wong wrote:
> > What do the numbers "2.457.2.2 from 2.427" mean in this context?  I
> > can't place them.  They don't seem to be related to GNU coreutils.
> 
> I was reading the version number displayed on the cygwin setup dialog that
> is initially displayed when I run setup.exe.

Ah!  Then Eric Blake was absolutely correct with his guesses.

> I'm using cygwin 1.5.12-1 with bash 2.05b-16 and perl 5.8.6-4.

The best place for discussing the MS-Windows port is on the Cygwin
lists.  This web link will get you to the top page.  There are links
below this to the mailing lists there.

  http://cygwin.com/

> $ perl -e 'unlink(@ARGV) or die "@ARGV: $!\n"' aaa
> aaa: No such file or directory
> [...]
> I also cannot use here documents:

I don't think this is a problem with rm especially since you can see
the behavior with other programs too.  It looks more like a problem in
the os.

Bob