From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix bug:rmdir could remove current working directory
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:17:45 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9q2kup$31b$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110101743140.21168-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <3BC4EFFC.42ACE59E@us.ibm.com>
In article <3BC4EFFC.42ACE59E@us.ibm.com>,
Mingming cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>I thought about the case when rmdir() on the cwd of other processes,
>but, as you said, that is implementation dependent. However rmdir() on
>"." does returns EBUSY error.
That's a completely different thing, though - even though the difference
is rather subtle.
You can remove pretty much any empty directory (if the filesystem
permits it - some don't). HOWEVER, you can not use "." as the final
component of your pathname.
It has nothing to do with home directory: you can try just doing
mkdir /tmp/hello
rmdir /tmp/hello/.
and you'll get the same error (and it _should_ return EINVAL, not EBUSY.
EBUSY is for the "this filesystem doesn't allow you to remove a
directory that is in use" case).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-11 0:32 [PATCH]Fix bug:rmdir could remove current working directory Mingming cao
2001-10-10 21:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-11 1:03 ` Mingming cao
2001-10-10 22:09 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 23:17 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
[not found] ` <200110102317.f9ANHjN03120@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-10-11 3:02 ` Mingming cao
2001-10-10 22:21 ` Ricky Beam
2001-10-10 23:36 ` John Levon
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