Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:02:53 -1000 | From | Mingming cao <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]Fix bug:rmdir could remove current working directory |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <3BC4EFFC.42ACE59E@us.ibm.com>, > Mingming cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >I thought about the case when rmdir() on the cwd of other processes, > >but, as you said, that is implementation dependent. However rmdir() on > >"." does returns EBUSY error. > > That's a completely different thing, though - even though the difference > is rather subtle. > > You can remove pretty much any empty directory (if the filesystem > permits it - some don't). HOWEVER, you can not use "." as the final > component of your pathname. > > It has nothing to do with home directory: you can try just doing > > mkdir /tmp/hello > rmdir /tmp/hello/. > > and you'll get the same error (and it _should_ return EINVAL, not EBUSY. > EBUSY is for the "this filesystem doesn't allow you to remove a > directory that is in use" case). > > Linus
I misunderstanded the rule. Thanks for clarifying!
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