From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:25:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010110232504.B9585@emma1.emma.line.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200101082056.VAA147872.aeb@texel.cwi.nl> <20010108223445.V27646@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20010108223445.V27646@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 22:34:45 +0100
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:56:18PM +0100, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Hardlinks have nothing to do with `rmdir .`. See rmdir . as the equivalent
> pointed out by Alexander: "rmdir `pwd`". `pwd` returns the same thing
You can't delete immutable directories such as . and .. Plus, don't ever
dare to think of interpreting rmdir arguments. Just do what is written.
rmdir . makes no sense. If someone wants rmdir `pwd` he's free to write
just that. Of course, it's ugly because getcwd and the like are kludges,
but you should only delete things you know anyhow.
--
Matthias Andree
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 20:56 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 21:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 22:25 ` Matthias Andree [this message]
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2001-01-09 14:38 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-09 13:41 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-09 14:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 14:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-10 15:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 17:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 17:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 14:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 12:18 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 22:50 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-08 23:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 17:02 ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-01-08 17:08 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 17:31 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2001-01-08 17:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 18:04 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 21:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 21:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-08 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 8:09 ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-09 10:48 ` Eric Lammerts
2001-01-09 9:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 15:00 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 20:59 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-09 21:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 0:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 17:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-08 20:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 13:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-08 21:54 ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-08 22:11 ` Benson Chow
2001-01-08 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 1:37 ` Wakko Warner
2001-01-09 1:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09 4:56 ` Marc Lehmann
2001-01-11 18:57 ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2001-01-09 13:39 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-12 18:27 ` Pavel Machek
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