On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:52:52 -0500 (EST), "Alan Curry"
<pacman-kernel@cqc.com> said:
> For as long as I can remember, if you removed a directory which is the
> current working directory of a process (for example, a shell), and then tried
> to do anything with that process that accesses the current working directory
> (for example, type "ls"), you'd get a ENOENT.
> Under 2.2, though, the opendir(".") succeeds and creates the appearance of an
> empty directory.
That is a bug. It should still return ENOENT, since there is no "."
entry any longer. I'll have a look.
> Even stranger, attempts to creat() or mkdir() in the nonexistent
> directory yield EPERM.
That is correct behaviour.
--Stephen
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