Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:39:06 +0100 | From | Guest section DW <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir |
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Eric Paire wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Guest section DW wrote: > > > > > I see that an entire discussion has taken place. Let me just remark this, > > > quoting the Austin draft: > > > > > > If the path argument refers to a path whose final component is either > > > dot or dot-dot, rmdir( ) shall fail. > > > > > > EINVAL The path argument contains a last component that is dot. > > [snip] > > > Then, I don't understand why the EINVAL error condition does not also include > dot-dot as last component.
Answer 1: It is the (draft) standard. No understanding required.
Answer 2: Whenever ENOTEMPTY is available, this much more precise error return is to be preferred above EINVAL. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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