Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: rmdir of one's pwd (was Re: rmdir of a busy directory) | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | | Date | 13 Feb 1999 04:03:14 +0100 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
|> On 12 Feb 1999, Andreas Schwab wrote: |> |> > |> + if (dentry == current->fs->pwd) |> > |> + return -EINVAL; |> > |> + |> > |> if (!dir->i_op || !dir->i_op->rmdir) |> > |> return -EPERM; |> > |> > This patch is wrong, it also forbids `rmdir ../foo'. Only a path ending |> > in '.' is special. Think about it: to find out the real name of the entry |> > to unlink you'll have find its link in the parent directory. With `.' you |> > simply don't have enough information about what to unlink. |> |> Actually, you do.
Yes. I should have added `except when you have Linux' clever dentries'.
|> Show me POSIX or other standards that say that you can't do it, and I |> guess I have to work around a standards problem, but right now I say that |> if programs ask for 'rmdir(".")', then they had better get it. I don't |> think the OS should second-guess anybody.
I agree with that. IMHO the fixinc script should be fixed.
Andreas.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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