From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Subject: Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it is
	possible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:17:32 +0200
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Hello Linus,

> I'd suggest making a bug-report. ENOTEMPTY is not an optional error.
> Posix says "Shall fail".  The "unlink directories" is so old-fashioned
> that it's not even funny. The whole reason "rmdir()" was created was
> to *not* have that behaviour in the OS. 

I asked the UFS maintainer to reconsider to fix this.

        Thomas