Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:38:23 -0600 (CST)


> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:
>
> > Not exactly valid, since a file could be created in that "pinned" directory
> > after the rmdir...
>
> No, it couldn't (if you can show a testcase when it would - please do, you've
> found a bug). Moreover, busy directories can be removed in 2.4 quite fine -
> it's about pathname, not about the thing being your (or somebody else) pwd.

Apologies to all, foot-in-mouth disease....

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Jesse I Pollard, II
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