Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> The bottom line: rmdir(".") is gone. Replace it with portable equivalent,
> namely
>       p = getcwd(pwd, sizeof(pwd));
>       if (!p)
>               /* handle error - ERANGE or ENOENT */
>       rmdir(p);
> Shell equivalent is rmdir `pwd`. Also portable.

...when you are lucky and all directories up to your path are
readable... Which is not always so. With old glibc, it will fail.
                                                                Pavel
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