|> Linus Torvalds wrote:
|>
|> > Show me POSIX or other standards that say that you can't do it, and I
|> > guess I have to work around a standards problem, but right now I say that
|> > if programs ask for 'rmdir(".")', then they had better get it. I don't
|> > think the OS should second-guess anybody.
|>
|> I don't know about a formal standard, either.
>From SUS2:
"If the directory is the root directory or the current working directory
of any process, it is unspecified whether the function succeeds, or
whether it fails and sets errno to [EBUSY]."
Btw, they don't talk about EINVAL.
Andreas.
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