Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:43:11 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: rmdir of one's pwd (was Re: rmdir of a busy directory) |
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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Thierry Danis wrote:
> > > > > > > > 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 s/bar/./ Sorry for braino. > > $ uname > > FreeBSD > > $ > > That's probably because 'rmdir' checks for its argument.
Nope. Look into /sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c::rmdir() and after namei(&nd) you'll see the explicit comparison of vnode you got with vnode that used to be pwd when the ND_INIT_... was issued.
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