Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 19:01:25 EST

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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:27:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> However, it is against all UNIX standards, and Linux-2.4 will explicitly

I may be missing something but apparently SuSv2 allows it, you can check here:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/rmdir.html

Infact SuSv2 doesn't even allow rmdir to return -EINVAL.

Andrea
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