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 19:01:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:01:31 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:44589 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:01:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 01:01:25 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 Message-ID: <20010109010125.O27646@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010108185518.G27646@athlon.random> <20010108213036.T27646@athlon.random> <93dicp$ano$1@penguin.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <93dicp$ano$1@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:27:21PM -0800 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 03:27:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > However, it is against all UNIX standards, and Linux-2.4 will explicitly I may be missing something but apparently SuSv2 allows it, you can check here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/rmdir.html Infact SuSv2 doesn't even allow rmdir to return -EINVAL. 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/