Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:23:54 -0500 (EST)


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.

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