From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4
Date: 8 Jan 2001 15:27:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93dicp$ano$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010108185518.G27646@athlon.random> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101081259230.4061-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <20010108213036.T27646@athlon.random>
In article <20010108213036.T27646@athlon.random>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:24PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>> Racy. Nonportable. Has portable and simple equivalent. Again, don't
>> bother with chdir at all - if you know the name of directory even
>> ../name will work. It's not about the current directory. It's about
>> the invalid last component of the name.
>
>The last component of the name isn't invalid, it's a plain valid directory. If
>according to you `rmdir ../name` and rmdir `pwd` makes sense then according to
>me `rmdir .` makes perfect sense too.
It makes perfect sense, and Linux used to accept it during the 2.3.x
timeframe.
However, it is against all UNIX standards, and Linux-2.4 will explicitly
not allow it (there's also some parent locking issues there).
Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-08 23:28 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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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