Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:05:41 +0100 (MET) | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | | Subject | Re: rmdir of one's pwd |
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Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
: ... and SUS2 doesn't mention names ending with "." as a possible reason : for failure. Weird. Anyway, I think that (a) no matter which policy we : will take it should be done in VFS (*not* in filesystems - see your : example with lofs) and (b) we may need a generic mechanism for dealing : with such stuff. : What about adding a boolean vector to the struct task and adding a : new syscall: : int POSIX_lossage(...)
I do not understand why you insist on uglifying Linux.
As I mentioned already, POSIX does *not* require this. Even stronger, the current version does not even allow you to return EINVAL.
Neither rmdir(2) nor rmdir(1) have any restrictions on "." or names ending in ".".
Andries
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