Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:41:21 -0600 (CST) | From | Jesse Pollard <> |
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> > 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?
Not exactly valid, since a file could be created in that "pinned" directory after the rmdir...
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