From: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:17:32 GMT
Subject: Re: "git clone" executed as root on solaris 10 shreds UFS (it is possible to create hardlinks for directories as root under solaris)
Message-ID: <20070716171732.GE6134@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161004550.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hello Linus,

> I'd suggest making a bug-report. ENOTEMPTY is not an optional error.
> Posix says "Shall fail".  The "unlink directories" is so old-fashioned
> that it's not even funny. The whole reason "rmdir()" was created was
> to *not* have that behaviour in the OS. 

I asked the UFS maintainer to reconsider to fix this.

        Thomas