Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:30:36 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> |
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:24PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > Racy. Nonportable. Has portable and simple equivalent. Again, don't > bother with chdir at all - if you know the name of directory even > ../name will work. It's not about the current directory. It's about > the invalid last component of the name.
The last component of the name isn't invalid, it's a plain valid directory. If according to you `rmdir ../name` and rmdir `pwd` makes sense then according to me `rmdir .` makes perfect sense too.
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