From: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
To: viro@math.psu.edu, Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
Cc: andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:38:23 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101091438.IAA52632@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> (raw)
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:
>
> > Not exactly valid, since a file could be created in that "pinned" directory
> > after the rmdir...
>
> No, it couldn't (if you can show a testcase when it would - please do, you've
> found a bug). Moreover, busy directories can be removed in 2.4 quite fine -
> it's about pathname, not about the thing being your (or somebody else) pwd.
Apologies to all, foot-in-mouth disease....
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2001-01-09 14:38 Jesse Pollard [this message]
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2001-01-09 13:41 `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-09 14:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 14:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-10 15:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 17:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 17:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 14:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 12:18 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 22:50 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 23:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 17:02 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-01-08 20:56 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 21:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 22:25 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-08 17:08 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 17:31 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-01-08 17:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 18:04 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 21:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 21:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 8:09 ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-09 10:48 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-01-09 9:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 15:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 20:59 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 21:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 0:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 17:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 21:54 ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-08 22:11 ` Benson Chow
2001-01-08 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 1:37 ` Wakko Warner
2001-01-09 1:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 4:56 ` Marc Lehmann
2001-01-11 18:57 ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2001-01-09 13:39 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-12 18:27 ` Pavel Machek
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