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| From: | Andreas Schwab |
| Subject: | bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/. |
| Date: | Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:43:28 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Linda Walsh <address@hidden> writes: > In looking at the 2013 specification for rm > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html), > > it no longer says to stop processing if the path basename equals > "." or "..". "If either of the files dot or dot-dot are specified as the basename portion of an operand (that is, the final pathname component) or if an operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands." Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, address@hidden GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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