`rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08T17:09:08Z

Hello Al,

why `rmdir .` is been deprecated in 2.4.x? I wrote software that depends on
`rmdir .` to work (it's local software only for myself so I don't care that it
may not work on unix) and I'm getting flooded by failing cronjobs since I put
2.4.0 on such machine. `rmdir .` makes perfect sense, the cwd dentry remains
pinned by me until I `cd ..`, when it gets finally deleted from disk. I'd like
if we could resurrect such fine feature (adapting userspace is just a few liner
but that isn't the point). Comments?

Andrea