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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:21:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net>
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To: Mingming cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix bug:rmdir could remove current working directory
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Mingming cao wrote:
>I read the man page of
>rmdir(2).  It says in this case EBUSY error should be returned.  I
>suspected this is a bug and added a check in vfs_rmdir(). The following
>patch is against 2.4.10 and has been verified.  Please comment and
>apply.

The bug is in the manpage.  This was discussed over a year ago (some time
after 2.1.44 introduced dcache (it was broken then, but that's when it
appeared.))

--Ricky


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