Re: rmdir of one's pwd (was Re: rmdir of a busy directory)

Thierry Danis (danis@sagem.fr)
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:32:30 +0100 (MET)

>
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> [snip rmdir . not failing on Linux]
> > > You never tried 4.4BSD, right?
> > True.
> Arrghhh... Turns out that I also didn't.
>
> $ mkdir foo
> $ (cd foo; sleep 10) &
> $ rmdir foo
> $ mkdir bar
> $ cd bar
> $ rmdir .
> rmdir: bar: Invalid argument
> $ uname
> FreeBSD
> $

That's probably because 'rmdir' checks for its argument.

$ uname
FreeBSD
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir TT
$ cd TT
$ rmdir .
rmdir: .: Invalid argument
$ rmdir /tmp/TT
$ ls
ls: .: No such file or directory
$

[.........]

A+

-- 
	Thierry Danis


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