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bug#20835: rmdir foo/. fails
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Ed Avis |
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bug#20835: rmdir foo/. fails |
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Date: |
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:15:34 +0000 (UTC) |
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POSIX documents that EINVAL be returned for rmdir('foo/.') but as far as I
can see from the link you sent it does not document the error status for
rmdir('foo/..') beyond saying that it shall fail. As it happens, it returns
ENOTEMPTY on Linux.
OK, you point out that foo/. might not always be the same thing as foo.
How about this: if foo/. has the same inode number as foo then rmdir proceeds.
If not, it prints an error a bit more helpful than 'Invalid argument'.
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Ed Avis <address@hidden>