1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?

[Randall R Schulz]

Rick,

You should try it. On many Unix systems it will work just fine. After the 
rmdir call, no call that uses a relative file name will work, however, 
since the directory must have been empty to be removed and in doing so the 
.. link would have been removed.

This applies to "classic" implementations on the Unix file system. Chris 
has pointed out that IRIX does not behave this way. Since those details are 
not part of the API specifications, the implementers get to do what they 
please. That's what it's all about when it comes to writing specifications 
(saying everything you mean and are willing to commit to and nothing you 
are not).

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 22:48 2001-09-07, Rick Rankin wrote:
>Hmm. It looks to me like this should fail, even under Unix. Once you've 
>chdir'd
>into test, it no longer exists at the current directory level. Shouldn't the
>sequence be
>
>mkdir("test");
>chdir("test");
>rmdir("../test");
>
>Of course, even this will fail under Windows because Windows won't allow the
>current directory to be deleted if it's in use by any process.
>
>--Rick


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