Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2000 19:14:21 +0100 (CET) | From | Jean-Marc Saffroy <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir |
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The cwd is not the problem. The '.' is. > > The reason for that check is that allowing "rmdir(".")" confuses a lot of > UNIX programs, because it wasn't traditionally allowed.
This is a point I don't understand here : do you mean that they are confused if they can rmdir "." but not if they can rmdir their cwd differently ? What's the difference ?
I am not saying that rmdir MUST be allowed on "." ; I just suggested that it be allowed _because_ you can rmdir your cwd anyway. Now if rmdir "." is forbidden, then I think rmdir `pwd` should fail as well. Or am I missing something ?
-- Jean-Marc Saffroy - Research Engineer - Silicomp Research Institute mailto:jms@migrantprogrammer.com
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