Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:31:40 +0400 (MSD) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how mkdir without .. ? Message-ID: <199910181331.RAA09599@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <199910171836.MAA04529@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at "Oct 17, 99 12:36:48 pm"
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Warner Losh writes:
> In message <199910151324.RAA22353@aaz.links.ru> "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" writes:
> : I need in directories without link to parent in it
> : or with link to parent renamed to something exotic name.
> :
> : What is the method to do it without kernel patching
> : in FreeBSD 2.2.X or 3.X ?
>
> I don't think this is possible. Even / has a parent directory
> (/.. being the only loop in the directory graph allowed).
>
> If you want to create a process that has no working directory, you can
> do this by, for example,
> mkdir("/tmp/foo");
> chdir("/tmp/foo");
> rmdir("/tmp/foo");
> which will make it impossible to create files in dot (./). This can
> cause other problems as many programs assume they can walk up to
> root.
It must be possible to create files in ".", "..", "../.." so on in my task,
but I don't want ".." be the path to parent directory.
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