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From: charles@c3pe.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: VERY SERIOUS rmdir bug
Message-ID: <216@c3pe.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 16:03:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: c3pe.216
Posted: Tue Jul 29 16:03:03 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 31-Jul-86 07:08:02 EDT
References: <79@wanginst.UUCP> <707@basser.oz> <1074@inset.UUCP>
Reply-To: charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green)
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Organization: C3, Inc., Reston, VA
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In article <1074@inset.UUCP> dave@inset.UUCP (Dave Lukes) writes:
}In article <707@basser.oz> john@basser.oz (John Mackin) writes:
}>To demonstrate the bug, do this:
}>
}>$ mkdir foo foo/bar
}>$ rmdir foo/bar/../bar
}>(rmdir will cough along the lines of "foo/bar/../bar not removed")
}
}What worries me is how many other hidden nasties are waiting in that nasty
}little (~~100 lines) piece of code.

What worries ME is the fact that our "fsck" doesn't even notice the missing
parent directory!  Isn't that one of the things "Check Connectivity" is for??
-- 
-Charles Green at C3 Inc.	{styx!seismo,cvl,dolqci}!decuac!c3pe!charles
	"Some try to tell me / Thoughts they cannot defend"    -The Moody Blues