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

From: Oleg Drokin (green@namesys.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 05:41:45 EST


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
> 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).

Bye,
    Oleg
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