Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 08:22:20 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Trevin Chow <trevin@mail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't delete an empty directory? Message-ID: <20010304082220.G50696@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010301202957.0254ccd0@mail.brightmail.com>; from trevin@mail.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:33:06PM -0800 References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010301202957.0254ccd0@mail.brightmail.com>
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On Thursday, 1 March 2001 at 20:33:06 -0800, Trevin Chow wrote: > For some reason I cannot remove a directory even though there are no files > in it. I recently had to run "fsck" manually as my machine had a "kernel > panic" . These events must be related. Here's some output of what's happened: > > /usr/ports/textproc/aspell/work/aspell-.33/scowl/r # ls -al > total 2 > drwxr-xr-x 3 500 500 512 Mar 1 20:30 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 3 500 500 512 Mar 1 20:30 ../ > > /usr/ports/textproc/aspell/work/aspell-.33/scowl # rmdir r > rmdir: r: Directory not empty > > Any ideas what might be causing this? It could be another process with cwd set to this directory. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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