Re: Kernel 2.2.17 bug found

[Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:20:22PM +0200, Andrea Pintori wrote:
> I've a Debian dist, Kernel 2.2.17, no patches, all packages are stable.
> 
> here what I found:
> 
> [/tmp] mkdir old
> [/tmp] chdir old
> [/tmp/old] mv . ../new
> [/tmp/old]                    (should be /tmp/new !!)
> [/tmp/old] mkdir fff
> error: cannot write...
> [tmp/old] ls > fff
> error: cannot write...
> [/tmp/old] ls -la
> total 0                         (?)
> [/tmp/old] cd ..
> [/tmp] ls -la
> *****************       ./
> *****************       ../
> *****************       new/
> 
> Does anybody knew this bug?

Not a bug... possibly a typo though. The "[/tmp/old] mv . ../new" line
destroys the definition of "current directory". The "mkdir fff" can't work
since the current directory is no longer there, and is indicated by
the lines:
     [/tmp/old] ls -la
     total 0                         (?)

There is nothing to take a directory of.
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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil

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