Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:55:39 +0200 From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r203990 - head/lib/libc/sys Message-ID: <20100218095538.GA2318@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi> In-Reply-To: <20100218064545.J2074@besplex.bde.org> References: <6413.1266433105@critter.freebsd.dk> <20100218064545.J2074@besplex.bde.org>
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On 2010-02-18, Bruce Evans wrote: > > critter phk> ./a.out > > a.out: Told you so: Is a directory > > Better fix the kernel bug than break the documentation then. Seconded. > namei() returns EISDIR for "/" (due to DELETE and and the special handling > of the degenerate case which includes "/" and not much else, else the bug > would affect more cases). This causes a problem also for mkdir(2), rmdir(2) and rename(2). All of them incorrectly return EISDIR for "/". An open PR and some discussion: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/59739 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-November/029958.html -- Jaakko
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