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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:34:56 -0700
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On 2/19/2011 11:35 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> On 2/19/2011 11:29 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>> $ rmdir .
>> rmdir: failed to remove `.': Invalid argument
>
> Nevermind. It doesn't work on Linux, either. I guess /bin/rmdir has code
> in it to check for that, which rmdir(2) does not.

Better test, which does work with 20110215, and which proves it's 
rmdir(1) being too clever, but not so clever it can't be outsmarted:

	$ mkdir foo
	$ cd foo
	$ rmdir ../foo

Eat that, rmdir(1)!

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