Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 13:27:06 EST

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Hi!

> The bottom line: rmdir(".") is gone. Replace it with portable equivalent,
> namely
> p = getcwd(pwd, sizeof(pwd));
> if (!p)
> /* handle error - ERANGE or ENOENT */
> rmdir(p);
> Shell equivalent is rmdir `pwd`. Also portable.

...when you are lucky and all directories up to your path are
readable... Which is not always so. With old glibc, it will fail.
Pavel

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