Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

Pavel Machek
2001-01-12T21:56:23Z

Hi!

> The bottom line: rmdir(".") is gone. Replace it with portable equivalent,
> namely
> p = getcwd(pwd, sizeof(pwd));
> if (!p)
> /* handle error - ERANGE or ENOENT */
> rmdir(p);
> Shell equivalent is rmdir `pwd`. Also portable.

...when you are lucky and all directories up to your path are
readable... Which is not always so. With old glibc, it will fail.
Pavel
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