tags 82157 notabug close 82157 stop On 2026-10-31 15:49, Bored Videos wrote:
% ls -dl drwxr-xr-x 0 s s 6 2026-10-31 17:45 .
That "0" is key: it means you're in an unnamed directory. If you had done it this way it would have been clearer: $ mkdir original $ cd original $ ls -ld . drwxrwxr-x 2 eggert eggert 2 Nov 1 09:12 . $ rmdir ../original $ ls -ld . drwxrwxr-x 0 eggert eggert 2 Nov 1 09:12 . The rmdir decreased the link count from 2 to 0, so the unnamed directory no longer is pointed to either by its parent (or by itself!). This is entirely independent of symlinks.
