Re: [PATCH]Fix bug:rmdir could remove current working directory

[Alexander Viro]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Mingming cao wrote:

> Hi Linus, Alan and Al,
> 
> I found that rmdir(2) could remove current working directory
> successfully.  This happens when the given pathname points to current
> working directory, not ".", but something else. For example, the current
> working directory's absolute pathname.  I read the man page of
> rmdir(2).  It says in this case EBUSY error should be returned.  I
> suspected this is a bug and added a check in vfs_rmdir(). The following
> patch is against 2.4.10 and has been verified.  Please comment and
> apply.

It's not a bug.  Moreover, test you add is obviously bogus - what about
cwd of other processes?

Actually, rmdir() on a busy directory _is_ OK.  Implementation is allowed
to refuse doing that, but it's not required to.