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

Benson Chow
2001-01-08T22:11:32Z

Not very portable at all...

hpux = HP/UX 10.2

hpux:~$ mkdir foo
hpux:~$ cd foo
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir "`pwd`"
rmdir: /home/blc/foo: Cannot remove mountable directory
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir .
rmdir: cannot remove .. or .
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir /home/blc/foo
rmdir: /home/blc/foo: Cannot remove mountable directory
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir ./
rmdir: ./: Cannot remove mountable directory
hpux:~/foo$

Maybe HP/UX is messed up as well.

But anyway I'll try to step out of the building that i'm trying to blow
up, regardless of whether or not it will work on a particular OS will
hold onto a floor of it till it's done with it...

-bc

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Stefan Traby wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:54:51 +0100
> From: Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
> To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4
>
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:58:20PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Shell equivalent is rmdir `pwd`. Also portable.
>
> Very portable - not.
>
> rmdir "`pwd`" !!!
>
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