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

Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09T00:01:41Z

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