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From: jf@laura.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: bug in rm -r
Summary: rm ../junk also does not work correct
Message-ID: <1347@laura.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 16:47:53 GMT
References: <1152@psueea.UUCP>
Reply-To: jf@laura.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <1152@psueea.UUCP> kirkenda@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
>A funny thing just happened to me while running Minix-ST...
>
>	$ rm -r ../hostmgr
>
>AND IT TRIED TO DELETE MY CURRENT DIRECTORY!  It got as far as deleting .
>and .. before it got stuck & quit, so I didn't loose any data files.  But I
>was left with a directory that had no . or .. entries in it, a definite no-no.

The same with rm ../junk/anyfile, and best of all mv ../anyfile . :
unable to read contents of .

>OK, so I copied my files to a different directory, did a chdir out of the

I wonder how you copyed the file to another directory, i was unable to 
retrieve them...

	Jan-Hinrich
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			      Jan-Hinrich Fessel
	Universitaet Dortmund, IRB	jf@unido.uucp  ||  jf@unido.bitnet
	There's no way to delay that trouble comin' every day... F.Z.
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