From: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix bug:rmdir could remove current working directory
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:36:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011011003602.B84467@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC4E8AD.72F175E3@us.ibm.com> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0110101816320.22872-100000@sweetums.bluetronic.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0110101816320.22872-100000@sweetums.bluetronic.net>
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:21:01PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Mingming cao wrote:
> >I read the man page of
> >rmdir(2). It says in this case EBUSY error should be returned. I
> >suspected this is a bug and added a check in vfs_rmdir(). The following
> >patch is against 2.4.10 and has been verified. Please comment and
> >apply.
>
> The bug is in the manpage. This was discussed over a year ago (some time
Well, the manpage only states what certain error nr. returns may mean, not what
will be returned when. Do you have an improvement on :
EBUSY pathname is the current working directory or root directory of some process.
regards
john
--
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried
it."
- Donald Knuth
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-11 0:32 [PATCH]Fix bug:rmdir could remove current working directory Mingming cao
2001-10-10 21:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-11 1:03 ` Mingming cao
2001-10-10 22:09 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 23:17 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <200110102317.f9ANHjN03120@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-10-11 3:02 ` Mingming cao
2001-10-10 22:21 ` Ricky Beam
2001-10-10 23:36 ` John Levon [this message]
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