Re: bug when 'cd ..' to a directory who's parent has been deleted

[Chet Ramey]

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On 2/9/16 1:54 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 09 Feb 2016 07:47, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 2/9/16 2:10 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>> It's still an unlikely scenario.
>>>
>>> fwiw, i see it semi often when dealing with build systems:
>>
>> The unlikely scenario is somehow deleting a non-empty directory, as the 
OP
>> implied in his first posting.
> 
> i'm aware of how it's happening.  my point is that it's not completely
> unheard of, so i cited the real world cases where it comes up.  and at
> least for me, on a semi-regular basis.

We're not talking about the same thing.  The scenario you presented --
removing the entire directory tree including the shell process's current
directory -- is not all that uncommon.  The unlikely scenario I refer to
is somehow -- I'm not sure how -- removing a directory's parent without
removing the directory itself first, which is what the OP's first message
implied he managed to do.  I don't see that scenario ever happening.  It's
unlikely.

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