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

[Alexander Viro]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Mingming cao 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. Should not we keep the rmdir() behavior
> consistent: rmdir() on the current working directory of the current
> process is not OK?

We do.  It's not just ".",  "foo/bar/." is also prohibited.  IOW, the
rule is "the last component of name should not be . or ..".  Please,
look through archives - it had been beaten to death many times.