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

Ricky Beam (jfbeam@bluetopia.net)
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:21:01 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Mingming cao wrote:
>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.

The bug is in the manpage. This was discussed over a year ago (some time
after 2.1.44 introduced dcache (it was broken then, but that's when it
appeared.))

--Ricky

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