shailesh jain wrote:
...
POSIX allows readdir to work that way.
Sorry I do not follow your comment. What way POSIX allows readdir to work ?
As was demonstrated by that strace output:
returning an entry for a file that had been unlinked.
I already suggested that making this change might help
Here it is.
Outcome is that Child gets deleted but parent does not get deleted.
(Now you will say it's a filesystem issue ;) )
fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, parent, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=72, ...},
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0
unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, parent, 0) = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory)
shailesh jain wrote:
Here it is.
Outcome is that Child gets deleted but parent does not get deleted.
(Now you will say it's a filesystem issue ;) )
Let's start with the command you used here.
It must not have been rm -rf, because the ENOENT is not being ignored:
fstatat64(AT_FDCWD,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
shailesh jain wrote:
Here it is.
Outcome is that Child gets deleted but parent does not get deleted.
(Now you will say it's a filesystem issue ;) )
Let's start with the command you used here.
It must not have
shailesh jain wrote:
rm -rf does following (highly simplified)
remove_cwd_entries() {
// Check if dirp is empty ...
readdir();
}
remove_dir() {
while(1) {
remove_cwd_entries();
// Get the fd of directory
fd = open();
// Unlink empty_dir
unlinkat();
shailesh jain wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
...
If you can demonstrate an actual failure, or even that rm is
merely performing unnecessary unlinkat calls, please provide details.
Thanks for consideration. I will describe how 'rm -rf parent'
shailesh jain wrote:
I have attached a log file. Note I have ran this on local file system where
rm -rf works not on Network file system (I was running into some issues
which I am trying to resolve ..). However, this run also gives us lot of
information and demonstrates that even though rm
I have attached a log file. Note I have ran this on local file system where
rm -rf works not on Network file system (I was running into some issues
which I am trying to resolve ..). However, this run also gives us lot of
information and demonstrates that even though rm -rf works, it is does not
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote:
shailesh jain wrote:
I have attached a log file. Note I have ran this on local file system
where
rm -rf works not on Network file system (I was running into some issues
which I am trying to resolve ..). However, this
Hi All,
rm -rf does following (highly simplified)
remove_cwd_entries() {
// Check if dirp is empty ...
readdir();
}
remove_dir() {
while(1) {
remove_cwd_entries();
// Get the fd of directory
fd = open();
// Unlink empty_dir
unlinkat();
dirp =
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