It looks as though the bug is that the prompt() function does its own checking, returning EISDIR unless x-&gt;recursive is set, and this code wasn&#39;t updated with the addition of -d. I&#39;ve attached a patch which fixes this bug and adds a test of that code path. The fixes can also be retrieved from <a href="https://github.com/rkd91/coreutils_rm_di_patch">https://github.com/rkd91/coreutils_rm_di_patch</a>.<br>
<br>I haven&#39;t submitted patches for coreutils before; if there&#39;s somewhere else I should post this patch to, I&#39;m happy to be pointed there.<br><br>Best,<br>Rob