Steps to reproduce: $ mkdir /tmp/abc $ cd /tmp/abc $ rmdir /tmp/abc $ ls
What happened: no output, successful exit status What was expected: no output, unsuccessful exit status ls tried to list the contents of . but failed to do so, at least on Linux: open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 getdents(3, 0x55e10c419cf0, 32768) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Although "stat ." and "ls -ld ." still work on the removed directory, should "ls ." report success even though the getdents syscall fails?