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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: patch for bin/rm/rm.c
Date: 23 Mar 93 16:46:09
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar23164609@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: dfox@quack.kfu.com's message of 23 Mar 1993 21:51:11 UTC
In article <f0Yl6J8@quack.kfu.com> dfox@quack.kfu.com (David Fox) writes:
>I'm not sure if this is the way it's supposed
>to work.
that is the correct behavior for rmdir.
rmdir foo/
is equivalent to
rmdir foo/.
which, it should be obvious is an impossibility; you can't delete a
dir that you're holding busy, and you "enter" it with the trailing /.
chris
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