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- From: stuart@TIVOLI.COM (Stuart Jarriel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: A directory that CANNOT be removed.
- Message-ID: <8856@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:42:29 GMT
- References: <8476@tivoli.UUCP> <C16zAH.65G@fc.hp.com> <1jlr0pINNcp3@Germany.EU.net>
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- In article <1jlr0pINNcp3@Germany.EU.net>, bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
- |> |> 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.
- |>
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- And a good one. But the inodes match up correctly.
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- /tmp/newfp1/.. (39040)
- /tmp/. (39040)
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- thanks!
- stuart
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