delete selected folder leaves empty dir on disk

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, John Alton Tamplin wrote:
> > Since rmdir() doesn't delete it, I assume that means there is some entry
> 
> Well, on linux atleast, rmdir() can fail with EBUSY:
> 
>        EBUSY  pathname  is  the current working directory or root directory of
>               some process.
> 
> On solaris, you do have to be the process selected on the mailbox to hit
> the problem.

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.

I like (2) a lot more, and it is in tone with
http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1297

> http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1268

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  Henrique Holschuh