From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:41:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:41:34 -0500 Received: from tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.33]:16704 "EHLO tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:41:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:41:21 -0600 (CST) From: Jesse Pollard Message-Id: <200101091341.HAA52016@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> To: andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 Cc: Alexander Viro X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.2b] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --------- Received message begins Here --------- > > 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? Not exactly valid, since a file could be created in that "pinned" directory after the rmdir... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own. - 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/