Re: Are "," and ".." in directory required?

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:01:55 +0200


Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com> writes:

|> Hello!
|>
|> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:19:21PM +0400, "Andrey Borzenkov" wrote:
|> > > Enter empty directory. Remove it by rmdir() by another process. Now you
|> > > have a directory without dot and dotdot.
|> > It is not quite the same.
|> > bor@itsrm2% cd foo
|> > bor@itsrm2% sudo rmdir /tmp/foo

No need for sudo.

|> > bor@itsrm2% ls -la .
|> > .: No such file or directory
|>
|> Well, this sequence of events is wrong.
|> You need to open it first, then remove it, and then do readdir (you still have filehandle to it).

The filehandle is implicit (by being a cwd).

Andreas.

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