Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 08/02/2015 10:15 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Linda Walsh wrote:
>>> find, by itself, has no way to remove all of the items under a
>>> tree even if you own them all.
>> That's not a problem.  Have 'find' call 'rm'.  Something like this, say:
>>
>> find . ! -name . -prune -exec rm -fr {} +
>>
>> So there's no need to change 'rm'.
> 
> +1
> 
> Adding additional code to find out if the file to remove is still on the
> same file system would add bloat, and would open another can of worms:
> corner cases, races and a big performance penalty

Um...

The code to find out if the file to remove is on the same file system
is already in "rm".

-3 for attempting to create strawmen.