Thanks for the report.
fileutils-3.16 is very old -- it dates back to January of 1997.
Would you please try the latest test release of the fileutils, from here
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/
ftp://tug.org/pub/gnu/fetish/
and see if the problem persists?
marijg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| The following bash script running under a normal user (Debian Linux)
| makes a lot of directory's on a ext2 file system. After it has stop, I
| cannot remove them (as root). Now I know this, I think is is a security
| risk because all users can stop my server. I don't know if this is a bug
| in mkdir/rmdir. Perhaps I don't have the knowledge to solve this
| problem.
|
| Don't test this script in a root partition because I had to make a new
| ext2 file system on my test partition.
|
| #!/bin/bash
| while [ 1 ]
| do
| mkdir testdir
| cd testdir
| done
| # end
|
| If it is a bug then this email is my first bug report. Actually I did
| not discover this problem myself but a friend told me he had read this
| in a document on the internet.
|
| (writing English is difficult for me)
| --
| Met vriendelijke groeten,
|
| Martin Rijgersberg
