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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
	"\"Nikita Danilov\" " <Nikita@Namesys.COM>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are "," and ".." in directory required?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:01:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je65maio98.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030710104145.GA2858@namesys.com> (Oleg Drokin's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:41:45 +0400")

Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com> writes:

|> Hello!
|> 
|> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:19:21PM +0400, "Andrey Borzenkov"  wrote:
|> > > Enter empty directory. Remove it by rmdir() by another process. Now you
|> > > have a directory without dot and dotdot.
|> > It is not quite the same.
|> > bor@itsrm2% cd foo
|> > bor@itsrm2% sudo rmdir /tmp/foo

No need for sudo.

|> > bor@itsrm2% ls -la .
|> > .: No such file or directory
|> 
|> Well, this sequence of events is wrong.
|> You need to open it first, then remove it, and then do readdir (you still have filehandle to it).

The filehandle is implicit (by being a cwd).

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-07-10 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-10  8:16 Are "," and ".." in directory required? "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-07-10 10:01 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-07-10 10:19   ` Re[2]: " "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-07-10 10:37     ` Nikita Danilov
2003-07-10 11:47       ` "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-07-10 10:41     ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-10 12:01       ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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