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- From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: A directory that CANNOT be removed.
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:39:37 GMT
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- |> Stuart Jarriel (stuart@TIVOLI.COM) wrote:
- |> Has anyone else been able (HPUX 8.07) to create a directory that
- |> cannot be removed? ls with all of it's options fails to show any
- |> files in it, a program using scandir() thinks it's empty, yet
- |> rm -f or rmdir tells me that it cannot be deleted, it's not empty.
-
- Have you ls -ai'd it to find out the inode numbers of . and .. and compared
- them to the actual parent directory and the directory itself (from "above") ?
-
- Just a thought.
-
- -Bernard
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