Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Date | 8 Jan 2001 15:27:21 -0800 |
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In article <20010108213036.T27646@athlon.random>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: >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.
It makes perfect sense, and Linux used to accept it during the 2.3.x timeframe.
However, it is against all UNIX standards, and Linux-2.4 will explicitly not allow it (there's also some parent locking issues there).
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