From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:38:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:38:39 -0500 Received: from tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.33]:36160 "EHLO tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:38:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:38:23 -0600 (CST) From: Jesse Pollard Message-Id: <200101091438.IAA52632@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> To: viro@math.psu.edu, Jesse Pollard Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4 cc: andrea@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: [XMailTool v3.1.2b] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/