Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:02:39 +0100 | From | Kurt Roeckx <> |
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:50:44PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> > > > But in fact it fails with EINVAL, and > > > > [EINVAL]: The path argument contains a last component that is dot. > > I can't confirm. The specs I'm checking are here: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/rmdir.html > > That is the SUSv2 text, one of the ingredients for the new > POSIX standard. I quoted the current Austin draft, the current > draft for the next version of the POSIX standard. > > Quoting a text fragment: > > The rmdir( ) function shall remove a directory whose name is given by > path. The directory is removed only if it is an empty directory. > If the directory is the root directory or the current working > directory of any process, it is unspecified whether the function > succeeds, or whether it shall fail and set errno to [EBUSY]. > If path names a symbolic link, then rmdir( ) shall fail and > set errno to [ENOTDIR]. If the path argument refers to a path > whose final component is either dot or dot-dot, rmdir( ) shall > fail. ...
At the bottom of Andrea Arcangeli's url, it says: Derived from the POSIX.1-1988 standard.
I think it makes sense that if POSIX changed it, that we should follow POSIX, and not SuS v2, specially if it simplify's things in the kernel.
Kurt
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