Hi! Ossama Othman (othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu): > The prompt in my "xterm-1" still shows "~/test/me." When I do an "ls" in > xterm-1 I get no error. Shouldn't I get an error since the directory > isn't supposed to exist anymore. Is this some behavior in tcsh that I > wasn't aware of? In the past I used to get errors from "ls" of a > non-existent directory if the directory was removed when I was in that > directory, at least from what I recall. > > Am I missing something here? I think so. You didn't remove the directory - It still exists. Its Inode is still the same. <speculative mode on> If "ls" uses the "." entry of the current directory, everything is absolutely fine. if you you do "ls ~/test/me" you do get an error. <speculative mode off> Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB
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