Messages in this thread | | | From | (Thierry Danis) | Subject | Re: rmdir of one's pwd (was Re: rmdir of a busy directory) | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:32:30 +0100 (MET) |
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> > > > On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > [snip rmdir . not failing on Linux] > > > You never tried 4.4BSD, right? > > True. > Arrghhh... Turns out that I also didn't. > > $ mkdir foo > $ (cd foo; sleep 10) & > $ rmdir foo > $ mkdir bar > $ cd bar > $ rmdir . > rmdir: bar: Invalid argument > $ uname > FreeBSD > $
That's probably because 'rmdir' checks for its argument.
$ uname FreeBSD $ cd /tmp $ mkdir TT $ cd TT $ rmdir . rmdir: .: Invalid argument $ rmdir /tmp/TT $ ls ls: .: No such file or directory $
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A+ -- Thierry Danis
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