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From: rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Robert Regn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: rmdir ../bug
Summary: problem is caused by patch_path
Message-ID: <784@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 20 Dec 88 15:55:27 GMT
References: <1878@runx.ips.oz>
Organization: IMMD I, University of Erlangen, W-Erlangen
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In article <1878@runx.ips.oz>, brucee@runx.ips.oz (Bruce Evans) writes:
> 
> rmdir ../dirname starts removing "." when it shouldn't. The following shell
> script demonstrates the bug.
[....]

The problem is caused by the procedure patch_path which was added to rmdir
in the version 1.2. It strips ../qr/.. to ..
What was the intention behind path_path and who has it added ???

Robert Regn\
rtregn@faui32.uucp\
rtregn@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de