From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Eric Paire <paire@ri.silicomp.fr>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Jean-Marc Saffroy <saffroy@ri.silicomp.fr>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:39:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001120103906.A565@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011171514210.18150-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <200011200832.JAA19770@mailhost.ri.silicomp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200011200832.JAA19770@mailhost.ri.silicomp.fr>; from Eric Paire on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:32:39AM +0100
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Eric Paire wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
> >
> > > I see that an entire discussion has taken place. Let me just remark this,
> > > quoting the Austin draft:
> > >
> > > If the path argument refers to a path whose final component is either
> > > dot or dot-dot, rmdir( ) shall fail.
> > >
> > > EINVAL The path argument contains a last component that is dot.
> > [snip]
> >
> Then, I don't understand why the EINVAL error condition does not also include
> dot-dot as last component.
Answer 1: It is the (draft) standard. No understanding required.
Answer 2: Whenever ENOTEMPTY is available, this much more precise error return
is to be preferred above EINVAL.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-16 13:47 [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir Jean-Marc Saffroy
2000-11-16 15:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-16 17:49 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-16 18:14 ` Jean-Marc Saffroy
2000-11-16 18:28 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-16 18:51 ` Jean-Marc Saffroy
2000-11-16 18:59 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-16 21:17 ` David Feuer
2000-11-16 22:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-16 23:10 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-16 23:43 ` David Feuer
2000-11-17 0:04 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-18 1:30 ` Nix
2000-11-18 1:58 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-17 17:56 ` Guest section DW
2000-11-17 20:27 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-20 8:32 ` Eric Paire
2000-11-20 9:39 ` Guest section DW [this message]
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2000-11-16 16:07 Jesse Pollard
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