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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!richard From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: patch for bin/rm/rm.c Message-ID: <33469@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 25 Mar 93 12:22:56 GMT References: <1oligtINN6mj@ftp.UU.NET> <f0Yl6J8@quack.kfu.com> <CGD.93Mar23164609@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 14 In article <CGD.93Mar23164609@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >which, it should be obvious is an impossibility; you can't delete a >dir that you're holding busy, and you "enter" it with the trailing /. What is the justification for this "holding busy" concept? This kind of argument from kernel algorithm to user interface is just what makes people think Unix is user-unfriendly. It's completely clear what "rmdir foo/" should mean and there's no reason but laziness that it doesn't work. -- Richard -- Safe when used as directed