Re: rmdir system call

Nick Randell (nick@metrica.co.uk)
Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:39:40 +0000

Ulrich Windl wrote:
>
> On 20 Mar 96 at 7:26, Nick Randell wrote:
>
> > I have some code which is calling rmdir and passing the directory name
> > is with a trailing '/'.
> >
> > eg rmdir("/tmp/nick/")
> >
> > The system call is returning with 'ENOENT'.
> >
> >
> > The same code works ok on other operating systems. (HPUX, IRIX, AIX ...)
> >
> >
> > Like my last posting, which is right?
> >
> > If Linux is wrong, what can I do about it?
>
> Remove the trailing '/', and it will work on every machine.
>

I can do that but why is the linux rmdir different?

Should you be able to call rmdir with a trailing '/'?