> > But it's has various dawbacks, like rmdir doesn't work if there are > > open files within an otherwise empty directory. > > > > I'd happily accept suggestions on how to deal with this differenty. > > NFS has that problem because it really has to sillyrename into the same > directory. I don't see that ssh/sftp needs to do that. Instead it can > sillyrename anywhere in the filesystem. I don't think it can. How can we find in a reliable way another directory, which is writable by the user? Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html