Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:50:31 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> |
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Hi,
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:01:25AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:27:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > However, it is against all UNIX standards, and Linux-2.4 will explicitly > > I may be missing something but apparently SuSv2 allows it, you can check here: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/rmdir.html > > Infact SuSv2 doesn't even allow rmdir to return -EINVAL.
SuS always allows implementations to return other errors than the ones listed:
Implementations will not generate a different error number from the ones described here for error conditions described in this specification, but may generate additional errors unless explicitly disallowed for a particular function.
See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/errors.html
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