From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:19:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do _not_ call unlink on a directory
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707161414360.20061@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070716210612.GI19073@lavos.net>



On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Brian Downing wrote:
> 
> Apparently "enterprise class" in this case really means "fully
> compatibility with all those wonderful userland implementations of
> rmdir."  :-)

I see the smiley, but it's actually not possible even for that.

The broken "unlink()" behaviour doesn't work on any other filesystem (eg 
NFS) at all anyway, and even on UFS would only work for root (or 
setuid-root) binaries. So any user-land that depended on it literally 
wouldn't work _anyway_, even on Solaris itself.

And we're talking about the same company that was *famous* for screwing 
people over when they converted from SunOS to Solaris and broke binaries 
_and_ source code in the process.

So no, "compatibility" can't realistically be the reason.

			Linus