From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:56:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010108225605.Y27646@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010108213036.T27646@athlon.random> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101081537570.4061-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101081537570.4061-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:08:58PM -0500
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:08:58PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Andrea, fix your code. Linux-only stuff is OK when there is no
BTW, "rmdir `pwd`" is not portable either.
> portable way to achieve the same result. In your situation such way indeed
> exists and is prefectly doable in userland. If you want a cute DoWhatIMean
> wrapper around rmdir(2) - fine, you've just written one of the variants.
As just said I'm really not concerned about my code.
> Any reasons to keep that in the kernel? None? Thank you, case closed.
I think it would provide nicer semantics as 2.2.x does. The performance
argument seems irrelevant to me.
Andrea
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 17:08 `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 17:31 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-01-08 17:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 18:04 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 21:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 21:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-01-08 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 8:09 ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-09 10:48 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-01-09 9:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 15:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 20:59 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 21:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 0:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 17:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 21:54 ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-08 22:11 ` Benson Chow
2001-01-08 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 1:37 ` Wakko Warner
2001-01-09 1:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 4:56 ` Marc Lehmann
2001-01-11 18:57 ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2001-01-09 13:39 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-12 18:27 ` Pavel Machek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-08 20:56 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 21:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 22:25 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-08 22:50 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 23:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 17:02 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-01-09 12:18 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-09 13:41 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-09 14:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 14:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-10 15:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 17:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 17:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 14:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 14:38 Jesse Pollard
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