delete selected folder leaves empty dir on disk

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> There are two ways to fix this:
>
> 1) Don't cd to the directory (this fixes the EBUSY problem)
> 2) Put a tombstone there, and clean up the directory later.
>

(1) turns out to be better for Solaris (and fixes the EBUSY problem),
since while you can remove the directory with other processes in it, if
the system crashes you get some (basically bogus) fsck errors.

-Rob

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