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From: latham@bsdpkh.UUCP (Ken Latham)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: VERY SERIOUS rmdir bug
Message-ID: <236@bsdpkh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 19:52:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsdpkh.236
Posted: Fri Aug 15 19:52:11 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Aug-86 04:37:07 EDT
References: <1074@inset.UUCP> <-932157@homer>
Reply-To: latham@bsdpkh.UUCP (Ken Latham)
Organization: AT&T-IS (SDSS), Orlando Fl.
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In article <-932157@homer> marc@homer.UUCP 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")

THE ABOVE IS A REAL BUG ....
>>This seems to be another variant on the:
>>
>>	$ mkdir foo
>>	$ cd foo
>>	$ rmdir `pwd`
>>
>>/* End of text from homer:net.unix-wizar */
>
>try this one:
>	$ mkdir foo
>	$ cd foo
>	$ (cd ..; rmdir foo)
>then try
>	$ pwd
>	$ l
>	$ cd ..
>
>this is great fun!

..... NO it's SHELL !!!!

these two are "BUGS" in shell not 'RMDIR' ( not technically though )

When you remove the cwd from inside shell, you strand yourself there.
Ksh does not have these problems.



			Ken Latham, AT&T-IS (via AGS Inc.), Orlando , FL

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