From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: Re: Possible BUG in .99.11? or am I full of it? Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 10:23:51 GMT
>> On Sat, 31 Jul 1993 16:53:57 GMT, jgifford@world.std.com (Jim
>> Gifford NEGA RESA) said:
JGNR> doing some cleaning on my HD, and I rmdir'd a directory. I
JGNR> then suddenly remembered that I was STILL in the directory on
JGNR> another vc! In previous versions of the kernel(.95 - .99.2
JGNR> were what I used before) it would return an error along the
JGNR> lines of E_BUSY or something. My question is: Is the a bug in
JGNR> .99.11 or is it standard to UNIX? on the world, it allows
JGNR> this to happen also,(I used screen to test). Is this safe?
JGNR> shouldn't there be protection against such stupidity?
Finally this ^%@#^@%# behaviour was removed from ext2fs. Now you can,
like on most Unices, remove a directory even if some processes still
access it.
-- _____________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.