Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:23:05 +1000 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: Deleting the current directory, V2.1.54 |
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On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 09:42:58PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > If this new behavior is okay, it could result in some problems for > new-bee Linux users. They could get "lost" as programs running in > certain default directories could have their file operations fail > for no apparent reason as some other task removed that directory > and then recreated it.
All your observations indicate that everything is working as you'd expect it to under the circumstances.
On your sun box, open two windows, change into a directory in one window and then rmdir that directory from another window. You should observe the same behaviour. On this sun running 4.1.3 I get a stale NFS handle for NFS directories and " .: no such file or directory" for local ones. Any absolute pathnames will work, relative won't.
Linux is unique in being able to do this - as opposed to allowing it - or so Linus has said. -- [======================================================================] [ Kevin Lentin Email: K.Lentin@cs.monash.edu.au ] [ finger kevinl@fangorn.cs.monash.edu.au for PGP public key block. ] [ KeyId: 06808EED FingerPrint: 6024308DE1F84314 811B511DBA6FD596 ] [======================================================================]
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