delete selected folder leaves empty dir on disk

[John Alton Tamplin]

Rob Siemborski wrote:

>Yeah, we know about this.  There's no good way around it, since a totally
>separate imapd could be selected on the folder as well, and the directory
>would still be left around.
>  
>
So is it ok to sweep the filesystem and delete any empty directories? 
 Would that leave a race condition with an imapd creating a new folder?

It seems like it should be safe to rmdir() the directory even if some 
process is sitting on it or has it open -- there might need to be 
additional error checking to handle a directory disappearing 
unexpectedly, but that doesn't seem to be a big problem.

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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
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