From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:09:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:08:48 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:60269 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:08:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:08:57 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro Subject: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 Message-ID: <20010108180857.A26776@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Al, why `rmdir .` is been deprecated in 2.4.x? I wrote software that depends on `rmdir .` to work (it's local software only for myself so I don't care that it may not work on unix) and I'm getting flooded by failing cronjobs since I put 2.4.0 on such machine. `rmdir .` makes perfect sense, the cwd dentry remains pinned by me until I `cd ..`, when it gets finally deleted from disk. I'd like if we could resurrect such fine feature (adapting userspace is just a few liner but that isn't the point). Comments? Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/