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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: rmdir has become blind
Message-ID: <13220@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 88 23:19:55 GMT
References: <579@mks.UUCP> <474@hvrunix.UUCP> <586@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <586@mks.UUCP> by wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler):
+---------------
| Oh, one way I have found to violently dislodge a directory is to run cc
| and tell it to use as output a name which is an unwanted directory.  It
| eventually gives an error message that the file already exists, but in
| the process it deletes it.  I then run fsck to fix the file system.  In
| this case, it does what I want.  I'm not sure this behaviour is normally
| desireable, however.  Be careful when you call cc. 
+---------------

Don't blame ast for this -- a reasonably pure System V's pcc does this as
well.  I managed to orphan a directory tree my mis-specifying the arguments
in a Makefile while attempting to build a new kernel:

	$ sh :mkuts86
	(deleted)
		cc (...) -o ..
		ld: cannot create ..
	*** Exit 13.  Stop.
	$ ls ..
	.. not found
	$ _

Summary:  cc is an idiot.

++Brandon
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