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

Marc Lehmann
2001-01-09T04:57:01Z

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:55:15AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> > [wakko@<removed>:/home/wakko/test] rmdir "`pwd`"
> > rmdir: /home/wakko/test: Invalid argument
>
> Some other OS with a yet different retval? :)

It can be much worse (irix-6.5.4):

bash# mkdir x; cd x; rmdir "`pwd`"
/x: Can't remove current directory or ..

Here the error message makes sense - but is totally wron in this case :(

And here is linux-2.2.18:

cerebro:~# mkdir x; cd x;rmdir "`pwd`"
cerebro:~/x# ls -la
total 6
drwxr-x--- 0 root root 35 Jan 9 05:54 .
drwx------ 69 root root 5372 Jan 9 05:54 ..
cerebro:~/x# cd
cerebro:~# ls -la x
ls: x: No such file or directory

So, no, linux certainly does NOT remove "." ;)

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