Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: rmdir of one's pwd (was Re: rmdir of a busy directory) | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 15 Feb 1999 11:00:15 +0100 |
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Martin Tessun <martin.tessun@class.de> writes:
|> > Just tested on SunOS 5.5.1: |> > |> > $ mkdir xx |> > $ cd xx |> > $ rmdir . |> > rmdir: directory ".": Can't remove current directory or .. |> > $ rmdir ../xx |> > $ ls -a |> > $ ls ../xx |> > ../xx: No such file or directory |> |> Haeh?? |> |> godzilla% mkdir x |> godzilla% cd x |> godzilla% rmdir ../x |> rmdir: directory "../x": Can't remove current directory or .. |> godzilla% uname -sr |> SunOS 5.5.1
NFS or local disk? That certainly makes a difference. The kernel in general does not care, but the filesystem may.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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