Debian Bug report logs - #467552
rmdir(2) can return EEXISTS, too

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>

To: Debian BTS Submit <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: rmdir(2) can return EEXISTS, too

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:47:08 +0100

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Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.77-1

Current rmdir(2) manpage only lists

  ENOTEMPTY
      pathname  contains entries other than . and .. ; or, pathname has ..  as its final component.

However, according to the SuSv2 spec [1], rmdir can return either
ENOTEMPTY or EEXISTS in this case.

In fact, the current ntfs-3g version does use EEXISTS, allegedly
because "more software handle the relevant error scenario better that
way". (see [2] for the place where this originally came up)

Thank you,

Martin

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/rmdir.html
[2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/186569

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Message #10 received at 467552@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>

To: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>, 467552@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debc <control@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#467552: rmdir(2) can return EEXISTS, too

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:09:41 +0200

tags 467552 fixed-upstream
thanks

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 2.77-1
> 
> Current rmdir(2) manpage only lists
> 
>   ENOTEMPTY
>       pathname  contains entries other than . and .. ; or, pathname has ..  as its final component.
> 
> However, according to the SuSv2 spec [1], rmdir can return either
> ENOTEMPTY or EEXISTS in this case.

For the next upstream release, I added:

    POSIX.1-2001 also allows EEXIST for this condition.

Thanks for the report Martin.

Cheers,

Michael

> In fact, the current ntfs-3g version does use EEXISTS, allegedly
> because "more software handle the relevant error scenario better that
> way". (see [2] for the place where this originally came up)
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/rmdir.html
> [2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/186569
> 

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Message #17 received at 467552-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: 467552-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#467552: fixed in manpages 2.80-1

Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:02:37 +0000

Source: manpages
Source-Version: 2.80-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

manpages-dev_2.80-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages-dev_2.80-1_all.deb
manpages_2.80-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.80-1.diff.gz
manpages_2.80-1.dsc
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.80-1.dsc
manpages_2.80-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.80-1_all.deb
manpages_2.80.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.80.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 467552@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> (supplier of updated manpages package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:42:06 +0200
Source: manpages
Binary: manpages manpages-dev
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.80-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Description: 
 manpages   - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
 manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 421482 467552 476484 476672 477402 479284
Changes: 
 manpages (2.80-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version
     . Add getgrouplist(3) to SEE ALSO of getgrent(2) (closes: Bug#479284)
     . Document EEXISTS for rmdir(2) (closes: Bug#467552)
     . Update to sync_file_range(2) (closes: Bug#421482)
     . Remove unnecessary subheading in utime(2) (closes: Bug#477402)
     . Fix declaration of valuep in getsubopt(3) (closes: Bug#476672)
     . Clarify semantics when called from a multithreaded program in
       raise(3) (closes: Bug#476484)
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