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 15:30:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:30:35 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:45845 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:30:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:30:36 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Alexander Viro Cc: "Mohammad A. Haque" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 Message-ID: <20010108213036.T27646@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010108185518.G27646@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:24PM -0500 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 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. 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/